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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 weather bureau announce is likely to reopen as a sign of the theatre troupe moving out of town?
2. Which of the following things does the article not say about Ka as a person, according to Muhtar?
3. What kind of atmosphere do Ipek and Turgut find when they go to the National Theatre to stop Kadife from performing in the play?
4. What do Ka and Ipek talk about just after they make love?
5. Where does an official tell Ipek that Ka is being held for his protection when he brings her an envelope?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Sunay's final performance of his play described?
2. Why does Ipek decide not to go with Ka to Germany?
3. How is the National Theater described when Ipek and Turgut arrive just before Sunay's play?
4. What is the nature of Ka and Muhtar's meeting at a tea house in "A Godless man in Kars, the Fear of Being Shot"?
5. What does Sunay tell Serdar Bey to write two articles about to be printed in his paper the next day during their meeting with Ka before Sunay's final play performance?
6. How does Orhan remember the first time he met Ipek in Kars?
7. How does Blue's meeting at Hotel Asia become hard to control?
8. How is Blue's prison cell described when Ka visits with him on Sunay's orders?
9. How is Ka's research into snowflakes described by Orhan?
10. What does Z Demirkol reveal to Ka regarding Ipek after grabbing him in the street?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the book, the notion of the local women wearing a headscarf is examined.
Part 1.) What do the headscarves represent to the women of Kars in terms of their religious beliefs?
Part 2.) What motivations can be pointed at for why the women are suddenly asked to remove their headscarves?
Part 3.) What can be learned about the impact the removing of headscarves can have on the female psyche based on the suicides of the young women who didn't want to remove them?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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