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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. To what aspect of Zaynab's persona was her permanent and self-assigned nickname Zaynab122 connected?
2. How many years after Leila's departure from Van did Sinan wait before following her to Istanbul?
3. The chapter "Eight Minutes" recounts a memory associated with March of what year?
4. One of Leila's murderers turns out to be a man "who had been" what "his entire life" (207)?
5. In the chapter entitled "The Apartment," who opens Leila's apartment door and discovers Charlie Chaplin arriving home?
Short Essay Questions
1. Is the young man featured in the chapter called "The View from Above" right or wrong to accuse his father of murder?
2. How does Sinan's grief surrounding Leila's death differ from the grief of Leila's other four friends, as depicted in the chapter entitled "Grief"?
3. For what reason did Leila go to the Intercontinental Hotel on her last night alive?
4. How does the instance of foreshadowing included at the start of Part One: "Eight Minutes" become clear by the end of the chapter?
5. How do Leila's five friends finally gain access to information about the whereabouts of Leila's body?
6. What new information about the recent murders of sex workers does the reader learn in the chapter entitled "The Apartment"?
7. What object did D/Ali entrust to Leila in the chapter entitled "Ten Minutes" and why?
8. What is the origin of Zaynab 122's name, as is revealed in the chapter entitled "Zaynab's Story"?
9. How did Leila meet Humeyra, as depicted within the chapter entitled "Ten Minutes"?
10. What trophy do the two murderers keep on the dashboard of their silver Mercedes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Perform a biographical criticism of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by researching Shafak's life and work. Be sure to create a strong and specific claim focused on this particular book and then support that claim with quotes from the book and from your research of Shafak.
Essay Topic 2
Sensory details are used frequently by Shafak in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Shafak’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Shafak’s novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. What message is Shafak sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
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