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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. 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.

2. How many classrooms is Ka taken into to identify the Director of Education's killer at a veterinary school?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

3. What is the name of the place where Ka and Kadife see many students and unemployed people waiting for the theater performance?
(a) The National Theater.
(b) The Green Pastures Cafe.
(c) The Teahouse.
(d) Hotel Asia.

4. What does the sheik tell Ka is the first thing he needs to learn when they first talk in a café?
(a) Humility.
(b) Calm.
(c) Love.
(d) Forgiveness.

5. What is the name of the friend that Muhtar admits is the Westernized, self-possessed individual he always wanted to be?
(a) Necip.
(b) Orhan.
(c) Fazil.
(d) Fahir.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Funda's husband?

2. What does Kadife do before checking Ka for a microphone during their secret meeting at a hotel?

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

4. What is the name of the first poem that Ka writes in the book?

5. What poet does Ka tell Sunay that he and Muhtar both read when he says he must have grown up on Western films?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Kadife react when Ka questions her about her feelings on suicide?

5. What happens at the end of Sunay's first play at the National Theatre?

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

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

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

9. How is Sunay and Funda's seventies political theater background described 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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