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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of pot do Kostas and Defne plant the cutting from the fig tree?
(a) Blue ceramic.
(b) Brown ceramic.
(c) Yellow ceramic.
(d) White ceramic.

2. According to the fig tree, what type of tree should you find if you have no one willing to listen to you?
(a) Locust.
(b) Sugar maple.
(c) Red maple.
(d) Cottonwood.

3. How many flowers did the fig tree say that bees visited on one flight?
(a) 150.
(b) About 250.
(c) 400.
(d) Up to 300.

4. What is the name of the psychic that Dfne, Kostas, and Meryem visit in Cypris in the early 2000s?
(a) Madame Sahin.
(b) Madame Margosha.
(c) Madame Karga.
(d) Madame Kundakci.

5. Where do Kostas and Defne move after they leave his flat?
(a) South London.
(b) West London.
(c) East London.
(d) North London.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many species of birds are there?

2. When a bee tells the fig tree about being in the CMP Laboratory, how many forensic scientists were employed there?

3. When did Yusuf Yiorgos Robinson live and die?

4. In "A Thousand Thorns" when Kostas returns to Northern Cyprus, how long has it been since it has been in Cyprus?

5. When was Captain Joseph Lane murdered by two EOKA gunmen?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kostas take a cutting of the tree, and how does he care for it?

2. How does the fig tree reveal that stories come together in real life?

3. How and why did Defne transmute into a tree?

4. When does Defne go back to work after Ada is born, and what does she do?

5. In "Ancient Soul," why and how is Kostas beaten?

6. What happened to the child Defne had after Kostas left?

7. When Ada is a baby, why does Defne ask Kostas not to tell her about the past?

8. How does Kostas try to ensure the fig tree will survive?

9. What happens when Dr. Norman is about to give Defne an abortion in The Happy Fig?

10. In "Picnic," where do Defne and Kostas go together and what do they do?

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