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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. In "Silences," hold old is the survivor Defne and a colleague are interviewing when that person's oldest son treats them very rudely?
(a) 92.
(b) 89.
(c) 90.
(d) 87.

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

3. When was Captain Joseph Lane murdered by two EOKA gunmen?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1961.

4. What does Meryem want to make before she does the interview with Ada for Ada's school project?
(a) Lunch.
(b) Tea.
(c) Cookies.
(d) Snack.

5. When did Yusuf Yiorgos Robinson live and die?
(a) January 1975 to November 1975
(b) January 1975 to March 1975.
(c) January 1975 to July 1976.
(d) January 1975 to January 1976.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Meryem start packing in "Interview"?

2. In "Ways of Seeing," what time did Ada call Kostas when he was in the field working to let him know Defne had died?

3. What month is Ada born?

4. Who adopted Defne's baby?

5. Were does Ada say in "Proverbs" that Kostas was last year?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Kostas arrive in Northern Cyprus in the early 2000s, and how does he feel?

4. How did Defne die?

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

6. How does Kostas plan to contact Defne when he returns to Cyprus in the early 2000s?

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

8. What is Kostas working on, and what did he do last year in "Proverbs"?

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

10. What does the fig tree learn from a mosquito?

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