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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 kind of nationalists does Ka continue to tell Blue he needs joint support of along with the ex-Communists?
(a) Kurdish.
(b) Islamist.
(c) African.
(d) Syrian.

2. What political party did Ipek's father once belong to?
(a) Socialist.
(b) Islamist.
(c) Communist.
(d) Republican.

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

4. Which of the following words does Ka not use to describe Kars before reading his poem at the National Theater?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Desolate.
(c) Sad.
(d) Poor.

5. 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 veternarian clinic.
(d) A cafe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the place where Ka and Kadife see many students and unemployed people waiting for the theater performance?

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. How many letters does Nacip give to Ka for him to deliver to the woman he loves?

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

5. What is the name of the Assistant Chief of Police in Ka's hometown?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Ka do with the letters he promised Necip that he would give to Kadife in a stationary store?

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

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

7. What is the nature of Blue's speech regarding Hans Hensen to Ka?

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

9. How does Sunay describe Necip to Ka after questioning him for kissing his dead body at the morgue?

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

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