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

2. Who does Ka tell Blue he is spying for during their first meeting?

3. What is the name of the organization of the man who questions the Director of Education, saying he has condemned the director to death?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the nature of Hande's questions to Ka regarding his poetry?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the nature of Ka's first meeting with Serdar Bey in the book?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the role of the coup de theatre in the book. What final message was Sunay trying to send by having Kadife play a part in his final performance?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's inclusion of social commentary in the book to show the tension and turmoil in Kars. What is the reader able to feel in relation to the high school students, the unemployed, and the other activists whose protests were examined in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the concept of inspiration that is represented in the book revolving around Ka's need to write his poems. What role does Ka's childhood memories have in evoking inspiration for his poetry?

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