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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 the former Communist and writer who was onstage with Sunay during the play?
(a) Z Demirkol.
(b) Ferhat.
(c) Turgut Bey.
(d) Sunay Zaim.

2. What is the name of the organization of the man who questions the Director of Education, saying he has condemned the director to death?
(a) The Freedom Fighters for Islamic Justice.
(b) The Islamic Fighters.
(c) The Justice Seekers.
(d) The Freedom Fighters.

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

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

5. What prevents the horse and carriage taking Kadife and Turgut to a meeting with Blue from leaving right away?
(a) The maid brings something to them.
(b) The horse is changed.
(c) The wheels are changed.
(d) Another man gets in the carriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ka become at first during his meeting with Ipek before composing himself?

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

3. What does Ka tell the sheik that snow reminds him of when they first talk at the café?

4. Where does Sunay tell Ka that he and Funda disappeared to before gradually making their way back as performers?

5. What kind of story does Necip tell Ka he wrote and that he summarizes for him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Muhtar explain how he came to learn the teachings of the Kurdish Sheikh Saadettin Efendi?

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

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

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