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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay 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) Fazil.
(d) Fahir.

2. What is the name of a liberal German paper that ran articles for Blue?
(a) The Frankfurter Rundschau.
(b) The Turkish Examiner.
(c) The London Times.
(d) The Border City Gazette.

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

4. What village is the man from who travels to Kars specifically to target the director of the Institute of Education?
(a) Istanbul.
(b) Ankara.
(c) Kars.
(d) Tokat.

5. Which of the following places does Ipek not tell Ka was raided after the revolution at the theater?
(a) Religious high schools.
(b) Hostels.
(c) Party headquarters.
(d) Hotels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sunay's Communist accomplice and his two thugs go, and then tie up the manager for not letting them inside?

2. What does Necip tell Ka he keeps seeing the same of over and over when he explains why he doesn't look down the road?

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

4. What will Ipek not do with Ka when she first comes to visit his room because her father is in the same building?

5. What does Muhtar say he made the mistake of putting pressure on his wife about that may have caused their divorce?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the bus driver reluctant to let Ka on the bus at the beginning of the book?

2. What do the police want Ka to do when they take him into the station in regards to the Director of Education's death?

3. What is the nature of Ka's conversation with the sheikh when he first sees him at the Green Pastures café?

4. How is Sunay and Funda's seventies political theater background described in the book?

5. What do Z Dimerkol and two Turkish militants do to Ka after he leaves the National Theater after his speech?

6. How does Kadife search Ka for a microphone when he meets with her in a storage room at a hotel?

7. What happens when Ka tells the announcer that he finds Kars very beautiful, very poor and very sad during his speech at the National Theatre?

8. What is the nature of Ka's first meeting with Serdar Bey in the book?

9. What do Ka and Ipek discuss when they have their first meeting together at the New Life Pastry Shop?

10. How is the first time that Ka and Ipek make love described?

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