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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 name of the Assistant Chief of Police in Ka's hometown?

2. What kind of story does Necip tell Ka he wrote and that he summarizes for him?

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

4. What does Muhtar say he made the mistake of putting pressure on his wife about that may have caused their divorce?

5. How many letters does Nacip give to Ka for him to deliver to the woman he loves?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Examine the role of control in the book, paying close attention to its impact in the political and theatrical groups in the book. What methods did characters like Sunay Zaim and Z Dimerkol use to gain control over others?

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