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

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

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

4. What kind of soldiers is the woman who performed "My Fatherland or My Head Scarf" saved by during the skit?
(a) Socialists.
(b) Communists.
(c) Republicans.
(d) Democrats.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following things does not occur to the director after getting off an elevator with a man, according to a story Ka's college friend tells him after he leaves his first meeting with Blue?

2. What is the name of the beautiful divorcee that Ka runs into after leaving his hotel to meet with the Border City Gazette?

3. What political party did Ipek's father once belong to?

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

5. How many classrooms is Ka taken into to identify the Director of Education's killer at a veterinary school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Necip describe his short science fiction story to Ka?

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

3. What reason does Ka tell his fellow seatmate for why he is going to Kars during the bus ride there?

4. What is the nature of Ka and Fazil's conversation when Fazil approaches him in the library?

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

6. How is the director described after he meets a man in an elevator in a story that Necip tells Ka?

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

8. How is the director of the Institute for Education killed?

9. How is Blue described the first time he is seen in the book?

10. 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?

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