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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 the owner of the Border City Gazette?
(a) Turgut Bey.
(b) Orhan Bey.
(c) Blue.
(d) Serdar Bey.

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

3. What is the name of the finished book of poetry that Ka's friend is searching for in his green notebook?
(a) Ipek.
(b) Snow.
(c) Life.
(d) Love.

4. How many years had Ka been away from Turkey when he returns at the beginning of the book?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 14.
(d) 15.

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

6. Who does Sunay reveal is Blue's mistress and is the reason for him being in Kars?
(a) Kadife.
(b) Hicran.
(c) Ipek.
(d) Hande.

7. Who does Ipek bring Ka a letter from when she comes to tell him the director's condition has worsened?
(a) Kadife.
(b) Ohan Bey.
(c) Saadettin Cevher.
(d) Sunay Zaim.

8. What is the name of Funda's husband?
(a) Rustem.
(b) Surab.
(c) Sunay Zaim.
(d) Blue.

9. Which of the following tribes is not mentioned to have influenced the Kars region according to Ka?
(a) Circassians.
(b) Georgians.
(c) French.
(d) Kurds.

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

11. Who does Ka receive benefits from while an exile, but cuts links with while in Germany?
(a) Turkish Communists.
(b) Kurds.
(c) The Republicans.
(d) The German government.

12. What is the name of the soap opera that Turgut and Ipek watch together?
(a) Sue.
(b) Marianna.
(c) Carolina.
(d) Jane.

13. Which of the following things does Ipek not serve Ka for breakfast the day after the revolution at the theater?
(a) Pancakes.
(b) Olives.
(c) Bread.
(d) Cheese.

14. What is the name of the girl whose suicide is discussed at dinner by Hande?
(a) Zahide.
(b) Hicran.
(c) Teslime.
(d) Hande.

15. What kind of store does Ka go to and photocopy Necip's letters to Kadife?
(a) A grocery store.
(b) A teahouse.
(c) A stationary store.
(d) Hotel Asia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ka pass by where he sees the head of the theatrical troupe sitting and drinking before their performance after leaving Kadife?

2. Who does Ka realize now occupies a former tailor shop that was once a mansion in town?

3. What are the names of the two men in the old Turkish story that Blue tells Ka about during their first meeting?

4. Who does Necip proclaim his love for when he comes up to Ka for the second time in the book?

5. What does Sunay tell Ka that he never lost his belief in that his guiding principles could take him to the summit of?

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