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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Ka's friend whom he runs into after leaving his first meeting with Blue?
(a) Necip.
(b) Rustem.
(c) Fahir.
(d) Fazil.

2. What does Kadife do before checking Ka for a microphone during their secret meeting at a hotel?
(a) Pulls a gun on him.
(b) Cries with him.
(c) Hugs him.
(d) Kisses him.

3. What is the name of the poem Ka writes after asking Ipek repeatedly to go to bed with him?
(a) "The Chocolate Box".
(b) "Snow".
(c) "The Staircase".
(d) "The Night of the Revolution".

4. What are the names of the two men in the old Turkish story that Blue tells Ka about during their first meeting?
(a) Rustem and Suhrab.
(b) Funda and Sunay.
(c) Ipek and Ka.
(d) Kasim and Orhan.

5. What is the name of the boy that is Necip's best friend and who goes to Ka?
(a) Fazil.
(b) Rustem.
(c) Surab.
(d) Fahir.

6. What is the name of the woman who performs "My Fatherland or My Head Scarf" in the book?
(a) Ipek.
(b) Fahir.
(c) Kadife.
(d) Funda Eser.

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

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

9. How many letters does Nacip give to Ka for him to deliver to the woman he loves?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

10. Where does Sunay's Communist accomplice and his two thugs go, and then tie up the manager for not letting them inside?
(a) The National Theatre.
(b) The stationary store.
(c) The telephone office.
(d) The teahouse.

11. Why does Funda tell Sunay that Ka is emotional when he becomes angry at him after they argue about Westernization?
(a) He was being exiled.
(b) He was moving.
(c) He was in love.
(d) He was dying.

12. What is the name of the Assistant Chief of Police in Ka's hometown?
(a) Turgut Bey.
(b) Ipek.
(c) Orhan Bey.
(d) Kasim Bey.

13. What poet does Ka tell Sunay that he and Muhtar both read when he says he must have grown up on Western films?
(a) T.S. Eliot.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) E.E. Cummings.
(d) Boudelaire.

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

15. What is the name of Ipek's family maid?
(a) Teslime.
(b) Zahide.
(c) Funda.
(d) Hande.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the hotel that Ka stays at in his hometown?

2. What kind of nationalists does Ka continue to tell Blue he needs joint support of along with the ex-Communists?

3. Where does Nacip have Ka meet him to give him the love letters he wishes for him to deliver?

4. What is the name of Ka's friend who visits Kars four years after him, just after he has died?

5. What is the name of the owner of the Border City Gazette?

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