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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the evening dress that Ipek is wearing the last time Ka sees her?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

2. What kind of necklace does Ohan remember Ipek wearing when he visited her in Kars?
(a) Emerald.
(b) Diamond.
(c) Jade.
(d) Ruby.

3. Which of the following things does Ka not find to be in Blue's prison cell?
(a) A bed.
(b) A heater.
(c) A rug.
(d) A table and chairs.

4. Who comes to the Snow Palace Hotel to talk to Kadife about her performance in that night's play?
(a) Hande.
(b) Hicran.
(c) Ipek.
(d) Funda Eser.

5. What does Ka have difficulty showing when Ipek tells him that she told her father she was going to Germany with him?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Enthusiasm.
(d) Happiness.

6. What is Ka's reaction when Ipek tells him that she will go to Germany with him?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is ecstatic.
(c) He is sad.
(d) He is indifferent.

7. Who does Ka tell Kadife that her father is afraid will become violent towards her during the play performance when trying to stop her from going through with it?
(a) Sunay.
(b) Islamists.
(c) The high school boys.
(d) The police.

8. Who does the narrator say is the one puzzling part of Sunay's final play?
(a) Ipek.
(b) Ka.
(c) Kadife.
(d) Funda.

9. What is the name of the poem that Orhan envisioned at Ka's old dormitory that originated from Necip's story?
(a) "Hidden Symmetry".
(b) "To Be Shot and Killed".
(c) "The Place Where God Does Not Exist".
(d) "The Chocolate Box".

10. What does Ka tell Blue that he wishes to preserve for himself to explain why he wanted to help Blue in prison?
(a) His own happiness.
(b) His good conscience.
(c) His wealth.
(d) His sanity.

11. Which of the following things does Orhan not tell Ipek that Ka did after returning to Germany from Kars?
(a) Looked for her in every woman.
(b) Slept often.
(c) Walked the streets.
(d) Drank heavily.

12. Who does Ipek ask Kadife about when she and Turgut find her in the National Theatre just before the final play performance?
(a) Zahide.
(b) Hircan.
(c) Ka.
(d) Hande.

13. Where is Ka punched after he is shoved into a car while walking on the street from visiting Blue?
(a) The head.
(b) The arm.
(c) The neck.
(d) The leg.

14. What does Sunay tell Ka that Kadife has in regards to her performance in the play?
(a) Talent.
(b) Anger.
(c) A grasp of it.
(d) Passion.

15. Where does Turgut enter the hotel where Blue is holding his secret meeting?
(a) The side entrance.
(b) The basement.
(c) The back entrance.
(d) The front.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the poem Ka writes after he is rudely turned away at Sunay's shop entrance?

2. What does Ka hold in his pocket as he arrives to the National Theatre before Sunay's final play?

3. What does Ka jump out of bed and do just after making love to Ipek for the first time?

4. What is the title of the statement that Blue shows to Ka when he visits him in his prison cell?

5. Who is Ka terrified to find he has been abducted by just after writing his eighteenth poem?

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