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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Muhtar tell Ka he avoided being arrested when they go to a tea house together?
(a) Setting a new date for the election.
(b) Feeding the hungry.
(c) Giving money.
(d) Letting prisoners go.

2. What do Ka and Ipek talk about just after they make love?
(a) A shirt.
(b) A watch.
(c) A bracelet.
(d) A record.

3. What does Ka find Funda and Kadife doing when he arrives to the National Theatre before Sunay's final play?
(a) Doing drugs.
(b) Eating.
(c) Rehearsing.
(d) Drinking.

4. Who is Ka terrified to find he has been abducted by just after writing his eighteenth poem?
(a) Fahir.
(b) Fazil.
(c) Zahide.
(d) Z Demirkol.

5. What do Ipek and Turgut see on the front page of the newspaper that makes them turn back to the theatre to stop Kadife from performing a final time?
(a) Ka is killed.
(b) There is a death onstage.
(c) Kadife is dead.
(d) The revolution has ended.

6. What does Ipek say happens to a person's belongings after they die?
(a) They are sold off.
(b) They are given away.
(c) They are auctioned.
(d) They are stolen.

7. What does Ka hold in his pocket as he arrives to the National Theatre before Sunay's final play?
(a) His room key.
(b) A letter.
(c) A knife.
(d) A gun.

8. What does Ka jump out of bed and do just after making love to Ipek for the first time?
(a) Makes dinner.
(b) Packs.
(c) Looks out the window.
(d) Makes the bed.

9. What does Ka remember thinking the snow was when he was young?
(a) Scary.
(b) Cold.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Frightening.

10. What is the name of the poem that Ka writes in hopes of making himself feel better, but all he feels is a crushing pain?
(a) "Privations and Difficulties".
(b) "The Place Where the World Ends".
(c) "Dog".
(d) "Hidden Symmetry".

11. What does Ipek wish to show Ka after he confronts her about her affair with Blue?
(a) Dinner she made him.
(b) Her speech.
(c) A book.
(d) The things she packed for Germany.

12. Who is at Ka's door within minutes when he returns from being questioned by Z Demirkol?
(a) Hande.
(b) Kadife.
(c) Ipek.
(d) Funda.

13. What is the title of the statement that Blue shows to Ka when he visits him in his prison cell?
(a) This is it.
(b) My execution.
(c) My life.
(d) My response.

14. Where does Ka find Ipek busying herself when he returns to the hotel from visiting Blue in prison?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The bedroom.
(c) The bathroom.
(d) The living room.

15. What does Ipek concentrate on so as not to get angry while being locked in Ka's room?
(a) Dressing.
(b) Packing.
(c) Eating.
(d) Bathing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ka ask Kadife to write out so that he can give it to Sunay after visiting Blue in prison?

2. What is the name of the colonel that Sunay is with when Ka returns with Kadife's agreement to perform in his play?

3. Where is Ka taken in the middle of the city to see Blue, where he is being held in a cell?

4. What is the name of the poem Ka writes after he is rudely turned away at Sunay's shop entrance?

5. What is the name of the poem Ka writes that portrays his vacillation between love and loss?

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