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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. Who does Ka tell Blue he is spying for during their first meeting?

2. What does the sheik tell Ka is the first thing he needs to learn when they first talk in a café?

3. What is the name of the hotel that Turgut agrees to go to and meet Blue?

4. What are the names of the two men in the old Turkish story that Blue tells Ka about during their first meeting?

5. Who does Ka receive benefits from while an exile, but cuts links with while in Germany?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the bus driver reluctant to let Ka on the bus at the beginning of the book?

2. What reason does Ka tell his fellow seatmate for why he is going to Kars during the bus ride there?

3. What is the nature of the favor Muhtar asks of Ka in regards to his ex-wife?

4. How does Muhtar explain how he came to learn the teachings of the Kurdish Sheikh Saadettin Efendi?

5. What is the nature of Orhan Bey's visit to Kars?

6. What is the nature of Ipek and Ka's conversation when she comes to tell him the director's condition has worsened?

7. How is Sunay and Funda's seventies political theater background described in the book?

8. What does Ka do with the letters he promised Necip that he would give to Kadife in a stationary store?

9. What is the nature of Ka's conversation with the sheikh when he first sees him at the Green Pastures café?

10. How does Ipek describe the events of the night after the tragedy at the National Theater to Ka over breakfast?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the role of control in the book, paying close attention to its impact in the political and theatrical groups in the book. What methods did characters like Sunay Zaim and Z Dimerkol use to gain control over others?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the portrayal of religion in the book and note the importance it has in the lives of the book's characters. In what way does the author offer a skewed view of religion in the book based on the intermixing images of violence and good related to it?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the portrayal of love in the book, noting the differences between Ka's portrayal and Fazil's.

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