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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 Ka ask to stop to write down a poem when being driven to another facility to identify the Director of Education's killer?
(a) A teahouse.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A cafe.
(d) A veternarian clinic.

2. Who does the director claim he is under orders from to ban local women from wearing their head scarves when questioned by a man in the book?
(a) Kars.
(b) Ankara.
(c) Erzurum.
(d) Tokart.

3. What is the courtyard that Ka is taken to while hidden under a tarp with Kadife surrounded by?
(a) Grocers.
(b) Auto repair shops.
(c) Jewelry stores.
(d) Homeless people.

4. Where does Sunay tell Ka that he and Funda disappeared to before gradually making their way back as performers?
(a) The Dead Sea.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) The Black Sea.

5. What is the name of the person that Ka and Muhtar claim is the happiest political exile?
(a) Necip.
(b) Fazil.
(c) Ferhat.
(d) Sunay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Funda's husband say before running offstage after he and his group opened fire on the National Theater audience?

2. What is the name of the poem Ka writes after asking Ipek repeatedly to go to bed with him?

3. Why does Funda tell Sunay that Ka is emotional when he becomes angry at him after they argue about Westernization?

4. 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?

5. Which of the following words does Ka not use to describe Kars before reading his poem at the National Theater?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the nature of Ipek and Ka's conversation when she comes to tell him the director's condition has worsened?

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

5. What is the nature of Funda Esers' skit called "My Fatherland or My Headscarf?

6. How does Ipek describe the events of the night after the tragedy at the National Theater to Ka over breakfast?

7. What questions does Necip ask Ka when he is standing outside the National Theater?

8. What is the nature of Orhan Bey's visit to Kars?

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

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

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