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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 the owner of the Border City Gazette?
(a) Orhan Bey.
(b) Blue.
(c) Serdar Bey.
(d) Turgut Bey.

2. 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.

3. Who do Ka and Ipek realize they have both recently lost that seems to break the ice between them?
(a) Their mothers.
(b) Their fathers.
(c) Their sisters.
(d) Their children.

4. Which of the following places does Ipek not tell Ka was raided after the revolution at the theater?
(a) Hotels.
(b) Hostels.
(c) Party headquarters.
(d) Religious high schools.

5. Who does Ka realize now occupies a former tailor shop that was once a mansion in town?
(a) Blue.
(b) Sunay Zaim.
(c) Turgut Bey.
(d) Fahir.

6. What political party did Ipek's father once belong to?
(a) Communist.
(b) Republican.
(c) Islamist.
(d) Socialist.

7. What does Sunay tell Ka that he never lost his belief in that his guiding principles could take him to the summit of?
(a) Success.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Death.
(d) Sadness.

8. What is the name of the boy that is Necip's best friend and who goes to Ka?
(a) Rustem.
(b) Fazil.
(c) Surab.
(d) Fahir.

9. Where does Ka secretly meet Kadife at a hotel to discuss Blue?
(a) A storage room.
(b) A bedroom.
(c) A bathroom.
(d) The kitchen.

10. What is the name of the town in Turkey that Ka is from?
(a) Kars.
(b) Istanbul.
(c) Kia.
(d) Erzurum.

11. Where does Nacip have Ka meet him to give him the love letters he wishes for him to deliver?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) A closet.
(c) The bathroom.
(d) A bedroom.

12. What does a man do to Ka immediately after answering the door where Ka first goes to visit Blue?
(a) Kisses him.
(b) Hugs him.
(c) Beats him.
(d) Frisks him.

13. What is the name of the person that Ka and Muhtar claim is the happiest political exile?
(a) Necip.
(b) Sunay.
(c) Ferhat.
(d) Fazil.

14. Which of the following words does Ka not use to describe Kars before reading his poem at the National Theater?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Poor.
(c) Desolate.
(d) Sad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the name of the woman who performs "My Fatherland or My Head Scarf" in the book?

3. What kind of nationalists does Ka continue to tell Blue he needs joint support of along with the ex-Communists?

4. What is the name of Ka's friend whom he runs into after leaving his first meeting with Blue?

5. What is the name of Funda's husband?

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