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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 Funda's husband say before running offstage after he and his group opened fire on the National Theater audience?

2. Where does Nacip have Ka meet him to give him the love letters he wishes for him to deliver?

3. What does Necip tell Ka he keeps seeing the same of over and over when he explains why he doesn't look down the road?

4. How many classrooms is Ka taken into to identify the Director of Education's killer at a veterinary school?

5. Which of the following tribes is not mentioned to have influenced the Kars region according to Ka?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the nature of the favor Muhtar asks of Ka in regards to his ex-wife?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the concept of freedom in the book and note what characters like Ka and others had to do to achieve this dream. What role did political exile have in gaining freedom in Kars?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the portrayal of politics in the book, noting characters such as Sunay Zaim and Z Demirkol. What might the author be saying about the political system of Kars based on the negativity surrounding their methods?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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