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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character waits outside of Leila's apartment building in the chapter entitled "This Manic Old City"?
(a) Binnaz.
(b) Charlie Chaplin.
(c) Nalan.
(d) Humeyra.

2. It is revealed that of the four sex workers murdered in the last month, which woman had fought her attacker the hardest?
(a) The fourth.
(b) The second.
(c) The third.
(d) The first.

3. How many years after Leila's departure from Van did Sinan wait before following her to Istanbul?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

4. The chapter "Eight Minutes" recounts a memory associated with March of what year?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1979.

5. Which character did Leila see when she looked into the mirror on her wedding day?
(a) Her younger self.
(b) D/Ali.
(c) Binnaz.
(d) Her elderly self.

6. In what make of car were the two men riding when they stopped to talk to Leila on the evening of her death?
(a) BMW.
(b) Volvo.
(c) Volkswagen.
(d) Mercedes.

7. In what country was Zaynab122 born, as depicted in the chapter entitled "Zaynab's Story"?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Lebanon.
(c) Iran.
(d) Egypt.

8. What was NOT an event that occurred during the Turkish police's raid on the campus of Istanbul University?
(a) 30 students were murdered.
(b) 50 students were severely beaten.
(c) 30 students were arrested.
(d) 1 student was murdered.

9. What type of food is featured as part of Leila's final memory?
(a) Cinnamon cake.
(b) Chocolate cake.
(c) Rum cake.
(d) Strawberry cake.

10. Which character was killed at the protests portrayed in "Ten Minutes Twenty Seconds"?
(a) D/Ali.
(b) Nalan.
(c) Humeyra.
(d) Leila.

11. How many scars did D/Ali show to Leila when he was refuting her argument about their pasts?
(a) 8.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

12. To what aspect of Zaynab's persona was her permanent and self-assigned nickname Zaynab122 connected?
(a) Her past surgeries.
(b) Her age.
(c) Her height.
(d) Her family.

13. How many times had "the man all the prostitutes tried to avoid" (19) been banned from the street of brothels before he attacked Leila?
(a) 1.
(b) 0.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

14. The figurines on the dashboard of the silver Mercedes are created to look like what entities?
(a) Goddesses.
(b) Devils.
(c) Demons.
(d) Angels.

15. What is NOT mentioned within descriptions of the annual birthday parties Leila's five friends threw for her?
(a) Cupcakes.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Balloons.
(d) Decorations.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter entitled "Nine Minutes," Leila remembers D/Ali and has a memory of all but which of the following flavors?

2. Which of Leila's five friends tells hospital staff that they had been closer to Leila than her family was?

3. What is the last name of the morgue orderly named Kameel?

4. In what way were Leila's murderers related to one another?

5. How did the soldiers escape from the attack launched by protesters in Istanbul?

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