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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many hours does Ka sleep the night of the revolution at the theater?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

2. Where has Ka just returned from reading poetry when he is killed?
(a) Hamburg.
(b) Kars.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Frankfurt.

3. Which of the following scenes is not on the posters and wall clippings at a tea house visited by Ka to write the poem "Hidden Symmetry"?
(a) Swiss mountains.
(b) Cartoons.
(c) A massacre.
(d) A soccer schedule.

4. What does the woman who performed "My Fatherland or My Head Scarf" do with her headscarf during the performance?
(a) Washes it.
(b) Burns it.
(c) Tears it.
(d) Ties it around her neck.

5. What is the name of the town in Turkey that Ka is from?
(a) Kia.
(b) Erzurum.
(c) Kars.
(d) Istanbul.

6. Where does Nacip have Ka meet him to give him the love letters he wishes for him to deliver?
(a) A bedroom.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) A closet.
(d) The bathroom.

7. What is the name of the friend that Muhtar admits is the Westernized, self-possessed individual he always wanted to be?
(a) Fazil.
(b) Fahir.
(c) Necip.
(d) Orhan.

8. What is the name of the café Ka stops at to get directions, but stops to listen to a sheik?
(a) The Green Pastures Café.
(b) The New Life Pastry Shop.
(c) The Snow Palace Cafe.
(d) The Teahouse.

9. What does Ka realize has happened to Muhtar but not to him after they are taken in by police for questioning?
(a) He was fed.
(b) His clothes were taken.
(c) He was beaten.
(d) He was tortured.

10. What does Ka tell the sheik that snow reminds him of when they first talk at the café?
(a) His sister.
(b) God.
(c) Ipek.
(d) His mother.

11. What kind of story does Necip tell Ka he wrote and that he summarizes for him?
(a) Romance.
(b) Science fiction.
(c) Mystery.
(d) Fiction.

12. Who does Ka realize now occupies a former tailor shop that was once a mansion in town?
(a) Turgut Bey.
(b) Fahir.
(c) Blue.
(d) Sunay Zaim.

13. Where does Ka head to after leaving his meeting with Ipek when the Director of Education is killed?
(a) The National Theatre.
(b) The headquarters of the Prosperity Party.
(c) Hotel Asia.
(d) The stationary store.

14. How many classrooms is Ka taken into to identify the Director of Education's killer at a veterinary school?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

15. What does Sunay tell Ka that most people are not enough of to understand a modern poem?
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Smart.
(c) Sophisticated.
(d) Open.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of store does Ka go to and photocopy Necip's letters to Kadife?

2. What is the name of a liberal German paper that ran articles for Blue?

3. Who do Ka and Ipek realize they have both recently lost that seems to break the ice between them?

4. Which of the following things is not mentioned as being one of Ka's daily habits while living in Germany?

5. What is the name of the hotel that Turgut agrees to go to and meet Blue?

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