1 How does our narrator first introduce himself? As an ex-lover of Ka's As an old friend of Ka's As a former schoolmate of Ka's As Ka's cousin 2 Who does Ka see in the Green Pastures Café upon first arriving in Kars that later becomes a significant person in the text? His old friend Muhtar Ipek's sister, Kadife Sunay Zaim, a wandering theater performer Ipek's father, Turgut 3 Upon arriving in Kars and seeing the families of the suicide girls, the image of snow transforms ___. from an image of isolation to an image of togetherness from a masculine image to a feminine one from an image of childhood purity to one of hopelessness from an image of cold to an image of warmth 4 What is ironic about Kasim Bey's suggestion that Ka be tailed by a plainclothes officer? He is going to have Ka followed by a similar officer anyway. He actually wants Ka to be assassinated by a plainclothes officer. It suggests that the city is unsafe, but he tells Ka that the city is safe. He is one such officer himself. 5 What strikes Ka about the suicides of Kars' young women? They all were directly related to the question of wearing headscarves in schools. They were all related to being jilted by Islamist lovers. They all occurred without warning during the girls' daily routines. The girls all left suicide notes implicating the Istanbul bourgeoisie. 6 The environment in which Ka was raised could best be described as ___. secular and bourgeois poor and secular religious and wealthy middle-class and Christian 7 Serdar Bey claims that journalists have which of the following abilities? The ability to control the weather The ability to go undetected in public Predicting the future The ability to control people's minds 8 What do Ka and Ipek witness while chatting at the New Life Café in Chapter 4? The assassination of Dr. Yilmaz, the director of the local Institute of Education The capture of Blue, a local Islamist leader Necip writing some of his Islamic science fiction Various factions negotiating a joint statement for release to the West 9 In his conversation with the killer, Dr. Yilmaz suggests that the issue of headscarves ___. is deeply personal to him and his family, who argue constantly about whether their women should be covered does not matter at all to many of the Islamists in Kars is an example of when the Koran's explicit words should be disregarded has been made political in order to divide the Turkish people and victimize women 10 What ironic fact do we find out about Dr. Yilmaz's daughter? She has personally urged many girls to put on headscarves in order to conform. She has personally urged many girls to take off their headscarves in order to conform. After all, she does become a model, a public-facing, image-centered career in line with the extremist's predictions. She is one of the "headscarf girls" implicated in the suicides in Kars. 11 How did Muhtar react upon first arriving in Kars? He entered politics immediately out of boredom, then found faith. He was lonely and desperate for love, but it was in this state that Muhtar luckily reconnected with Ipek. He turned his nose up at the city, and fell into a deep depression at being so far from from "civilized" society, despite how much time he invested in imitating Westerners. He found faith immediately and saw his marriage to Ipek strengthened. 12 Why does Muhtar claim that he joined the Prosperity Party? He sees his own salvation as linked to the material liberation of Kars's poor. He wanted Ipek to feel safe in Kars. He craves power and influence over all else. His rational and material minds were not satisfied completely by the Sheikh alone. 13 Complete Necip's quote: "Political Islamist is only a name that Westerners and seculars give us Muslims who are ___." more loyal to god than earthly regimes unable to be silenced standing in their way ready to fight for our religion 14 The story that Blue tells Ka concerns ___. Rüstem and Suhrab, two figures from the Shahnameh Nasreddin, the Turkish folk satirist two old friends of his from schooling in Europe the Koran's Parable of the Hamlet in Ruins 15 What is ironic to Ka about Blue's appearance? His appearance recalls an old schoolmate of Ipek and Ka's. He looks urbane and European, in stark contrast to the provincial image of him painted by Western media. He is very feminine and affected, in seeming contrast to his conservative morals. He is much taller than Ka would have expected based on the accounts of others. 16 Necip and his friends suggest to Ka that atheism is linked to ___. cruelty towards the natural world passionate Love suicidal thoughts intolerance 17 Ka is seemingly followed throughout his time in Kars by ___. pigeons dogs cats raccoons 18 After speaking with Necip and his friends in Chapter 9, Ka is inspired by the image of ___. the train station the snowflake the raincloud the snowman 19 Ka tells the Sheikh that he is scared of finding faith because ___. he thinks that religious people are always fooling themselves he does not want to have to confront the possibility of an afterlife he has been conditioned to see religion as the enemy of modernization he does not want to betray his secular parents 20 One of the central religious questions of the novel concerns ___. whether one can find God after long periods of agnosticism whether one can believe in God as an individual, without a religious community whether religion is worthwhile and beneficial to society as a whole whether one can truly love God and truly love another person 21 Necip tests Ka's atheism by asking him to justify which of the following without the existence of God? Childhood diseases Governmental corruption The suffering of the poor True love 22 Necip tells Ka all of the following about Hicran's past EXCEPT ___. that she came to Kars to do a shampoo commercial mocking the city that she suggested that the covered girls in Kars shave their heads that she was influenced by one of the suicidal girls from Batman that she found faith after teasing the religious girls and became their leader 23 In reality, Hicran is an alias of ___. Hande Funda Eser, Sunay Zaim's wife Kadife, Ipek's sister Teslime 24 In Kadife's mind, snow can do which of the following? Shut the unwanted filth of the world out Accentuate the already existing tensions within a city Cast a blanket over conflicts and bring people together Bring about religious awakenings in the poor 25 Kadife says that her father's opinion of her wearing the headscarf ___. was initially positive when he saw it as an act of political resistance, but later became more fraught when he saw her behavior as the expression of religious faith has been uniformly positive was initially positive when he saw it as an expression of religious faith, but later became more fraught when he saw her behavior as a political statement has been uniformly negative
