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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tea did Defne drink when she was trying to miscarry after Kostas left?
(a) Cotton root bark.
(b) Pennyroyal.
(c) Black cohosh.
(d) Slippery elm.

2. What is the name of the woman who tells Defne that she has probably found Yusuf and Yiorgos?
(a) Dimitra.
(b) Eleni.
(c) Angeliki.
(d) Katerina.

3. Where do Kostas and David meet in "Remains of Love"?
(a) Tavern.
(b) Bookshop.
(c) Souvenir shop.
(d) Cafe.

4. In "Ways of Seeing," what time did Ada call Kostas when he was in the field working to let him know Defne had died?
(a) Midnight.
(b) 8 a.m.
(c) Noon.
(d) 3 a.m.

5. What type of pot do Kostas and Defne plant the cutting from the fig tree?
(a) White ceramic.
(b) Yellow ceramic.
(c) Brown ceramic.
(d) Blue ceramic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ada suggest that her aunt start with when she begins wearing her colorful clothes?

2. What type of tree does the fig believe you should share a song or a poem before sharing it with anyone else?

3. In "Butterflies and Bones," what time does Kosta arrive at The Wandering Khayyam?

4. How many parrots did an actress bring over to Cyprus including Chico?

5. How long is Kostas' journey to Northern Cyprus when he returns in "A Thousand Thorns"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the work that Defne and her team are doing a race against time?

2. How does Kostas take a cutting of the tree, and how does he care for it?

3. Where was Kostas when Defne died, and how did he learn of her death?

4. How does the fig tree reveal that stories come together in real life?

5. When Ada is a baby, why does Defne ask Kostas not to tell her about the past?

6. How did Defne try to terminate her pregnancy?

7. What does the fig tree learn about a military cemetery from a butterfly?

8. How and why did Defne transmute into a tree?

9. What happened in Chile under Pinochet?

10. Where did Chico, the parrot at The Happy Fig come from?

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