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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the sheik tell Ka is the first thing he needs to learn when they first talk in a café?

3. Who does Ka receive benefits from while an exile, but cuts links with while in Germany?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the nature of Orhan's memory of Ka's book of poems titled "Snow"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the portrayal of atheism in the book, noting its impact in an Islamic nation such as Kars. What is telling of the feelings towards a Western belief like atheism based on Fazil's commentary regarding it in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the impact of Orhan's investigation of Ka, noting what information we were able to learn about Ka's nature. What is telling about the nature of change and consequences of actions based on the information we learn about Ka's legacy in Kars after his death?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the portrayal of jealousy in the book, noting Ka's irrationality once it entered the picture. What reasons can explain Ka's sudden jealousy that may have caused him to lose Ipek forever?

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