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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Ka's friend who visits Kars four years after him, just after he has died?
(a) Hicran.
(b) Orhan Bey.
(c) Turgut Bey.
(d) Sunay Zaim.

2. What is the name of the beautiful divorcee that Ka runs into after leaving his hotel to meet with the Border City Gazette?
(a) Kadife.
(b) Funda.
(c) Iris.
(d) Ipek.

3. What are the names of the two men in the old Turkish story that Blue tells Ka about during their first meeting?
(a) Ipek and Ka.
(b) Kasim and Orhan.
(c) Funda and Sunay.
(d) Rustem and Suhrab.

4. What does the sheik tell Ka is the first thing he needs to learn when they first talk in a café?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Love.
(c) Calm.
(d) Humility.

5. What poet does Ka tell Sunay that he and Muhtar both read when he says he must have grown up on Western films?
(a) Boudelaire.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) E.E. Cummings.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

6. Which of the following tribes is not mentioned to have influenced the Kars region according to Ka?
(a) Kurds.
(b) French.
(c) Georgians.
(d) Circassians.

7. Who does Ipek bring Ka a letter from when she comes to tell him the director's condition has worsened?
(a) Kadife.
(b) Saadettin Cevher.
(c) Sunay Zaim.
(d) Ohan Bey.

8. What does Necip tell Ka he keeps seeing the same of over and over when he explains why he doesn't look down the road?
(a) Colors.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Landscapes.
(d) Jewels.

9. What is the name of the café that Ka meets his friend Ipek at for the first time?
(a) The Teahouse.
(b) The New Life Pastry Shop.
(c) The Asian Cafe.
(d) The Green Pastures Cafe.

10. How many hours does Ka sleep the night of the revolution at the theater?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

11. What is the name of Ka's friend whom he runs into after leaving his first meeting with Blue?
(a) Necip.
(b) Rustem.
(c) Fahir.
(d) Fazil.

12. What is the name of the finished book of poetry that Ka's friend is searching for in his green notebook?
(a) Life.
(b) Love.
(c) Ipek.
(d) Snow.

13. What village is the man from who travels to Kars specifically to target the director of the Institute of Education?
(a) Tokat.
(b) Kars.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Ankara.

14. What does Sunay tell Ka that most people are not enough of to understand a modern poem?
(a) Sophisticated.
(b) Smart.
(c) Wealthy.
(d) Open.

15. What is the name of the intelligence agency that has been receiving threats on the director of the Institute of Education?
(a) MIT.
(b) RUF.
(c) PUR.
(d) SIT.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the organization of the man who questions the Director of Education, saying he has condemned the director to death?

2. What does Funda's husband say before running offstage after he and his group opened fire on the National Theater audience?

3. What is the name of the former Communist and writer who was onstage with Sunay during the play?

4. How many classrooms is Ka taken into to identify the Director of Education's killer at a veterinary school?

5. Who does the director claim he is under orders from to ban local women from wearing their head scarves when questioned by a man in the book?

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