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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 is the courtyard that Ka is taken to while hidden under a tarp with Kadife surrounded by?

2. What does Ka spend his first day back in his hometown doing to keep up appearances as a journalist?

3. Who does Funda's husband tell the audience has just died before opening fire on the audience at the National Theater?

4. What is the name of Ipek's family maid?

5. What kind of fantasies has Ka tried to banish while making love to Ipek?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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 Ipek and Ka's conversation when she comes to tell him the director's condition has worsened?

5. What do Ka and Ipek discuss when they have their first meeting together at the New Life Pastry Shop?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the sisters Ipek and Kadife in the book. What is telling of the bond these sisters share based on their work with Blue's cause?

Essay Topic 2

While Ka doesn't appear religious, it is no doubt that mysticism has played a role in his life and impacted his actions while in Kars.

Part 1.) What role does the sheikh play in Ka's time spent in Kars?

Part 2.) What is telling about the role of mysticism in Kars based on Muhtar's experiences?

Part 3.) What role does mysticism have in Ka's poetry writing in terms of his feeling inspired?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of drinking in the book, notably as it is used as a coping mechanism. How does Ka's use of alcohol to forget his problems differ from Funda's, who uses it to manipulate others?

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