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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. Were does Ada say in "Proverbs" that Kostas was last year?
2. When Defne interviews the elderly about Cyprus, what body part does she notice never lies?
3. In the "Remains of Love," where is David flying at the end of the month?
4. What told the fig tree where the bodies of Yiorgos and Yusuf lay?
5. How old is Merjan, the woman who greets Kosta at The Wandering Khayyam in "Butterflies and Bones"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Defne try to terminate her pregnancy?
2. What is Kostas working on, and what did he do last year in "Proverbs"?
3. In "The Hidden," what do Kostas and Ada do together?
4. When Ada is a baby, why does Defne ask Kostas not to tell her about the past?
5. How does the fig tree reveal that stories come together in real life?
6. In "Remains of Love," what does Defne show Kostas that they found and what does she say regarding how they found it?
7. What is Kostas' study like?
8. As Meryem starts to pack after New Year's, what does she share with Ada?
9. How does Kostas take a cutting of the tree, and how does he care for it?
10. What does Meryem remember about the garden her family had when she was a child?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Happy Fig is a popular tavern. How is the tavern a place where different groups of people can socialize together? How does it touch people’s lives?
Essay Topic 2
Cyprus is divided between Greeks and Turks and Christians and Muslims. How does the conflict in Cyprus affect characters? How do ethnicity and religion cause violence and loss?
Essay Topic 3
An allusion is a figure of speech that does not directly refer to a person, place, or thing. What are some allusions in The Island of Missing Trees? Why might it be difficult to decipher an allusion just by the context of a passage in a book? How do the allusions Shafak uses help readers’ understanding of characters or concepts?
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