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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 birds does Kostas tell Ada about before she goes into school on the first day back for the term?
2. In "A Thousand Thorns," how long has Kostas' colleague David been based in Cyprus?
3. In "Kitchen," what is the name of a friend of Ada's that sets Meryem into a lecture about girls and boys?
4. How many British babies are buried in a military cemetery on Cyprus?
5. How long after Ada is born does Defne decide to go back to working for the Committee on MIssing Persons?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Defne die?
2. What does the fig tree learn about a military cemetery from a butterfly?
3. What is Kostas working on, and what did he do last year in "Proverbs"?
4. What is Kostas' study like?
5. In "Remains of Love," what does Defne show Kostas that they found and what does she say regarding how they found it?
6. Where was Kostas when Defne died, and how did he learn of her death?
7. In "The Hidden," what do Kostas and Ada do together?
8. How does Kostas take a cutting of the tree, and how does he care for it?
9. What happened in Chile under Pinochet?
10. What happens when Dr. Norman is about to give Defne an abortion in The Happy Fig?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Panagiota has superstitious rules she follows to try to prevent bad things from happening. In what way are both Panagiota and Meryem superstitious? How does superstition affects their lives and how they live?
Essay Topic 2
Defne worked with the Committee on Missing Persons. How did her work promote rehabilitation and healing? How did it also stir up old animosities? Was her work more of a positive influence or a negative one?
Essay Topic 3
Backstories are used to present information about events that happened before events in a novel. How do backstories provide insight into characters and events? What is the importance of backstories in The Island of Missing Trees?
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