Snow Quizzes

Snow Quiz 1

1 How does our narrator first introduce himself?
As Ka's cousin

As an ex-lover of Ka's

As an old friend of Ka's

As a former schoolmate of Ka's
2 Who does Ka see in the Green Pastures Café upon first arriving in Kars that later becomes a significant person in the text?
Sunay Zaim, a wandering theater performer

His old friend Muhtar

Ipek's sister, Kadife

Ipek's father, Turgut
3 Upon arriving in Kars and seeing the families of the suicide girls, the image of snow transforms ___.
from a masculine image to a feminine one

from an image of cold to an image of warmth

from an image of isolation to an image of togetherness

from an image of childhood purity to one of hopelessness
4 What is ironic about Kasim Bey's suggestion that Ka be tailed by a plainclothes officer?
He is one such officer himself.

He is going to have Ka followed by a similar officer anyway.

It suggests that the city is unsafe, but he tells Ka that the city is safe.

He actually wants Ka to be assassinated by a plainclothes officer.
5 What strikes Ka about the suicides of Kars' young women?
The girls all left suicide notes implicating the Istanbul bourgeoisie.

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.
6 The environment in which Ka was raised could best be described as ___.
middle-class and Christian

poor and secular

secular and bourgeois

religious and wealthy
7 Serdar Bey claims that journalists have which of the following abilities?
The ability to control people's minds

Predicting the future

The ability to go undetected in public

The ability to control the weather
8 What do Ka and Ipek witness while chatting at the New Life Café in Chapter 4?
Various factions negotiating a joint statement for release to the West

The capture of Blue, a local Islamist leader

The assassination of Dr. Yilmaz, the director of the local Institute of Education

Necip writing some of his Islamic science fiction
9 In his conversation with the killer, Dr. Yilmaz suggests that the issue of headscarves ___.
has been made political in order to divide the Turkish people and victimize women

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
10 What ironic fact do we find out about Dr. Yilmaz's daughter?
She is one of the "headscarf girls" implicated in the suicides in Kars.

She has personally urged many girls to take off their headscarves in order to conform.

She has personally urged many girls to put on 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.
11 How did Muhtar react upon first arriving in Kars?
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 was lonely and desperate for love, but it was in this state that Muhtar luckily reconnected with Ipek.

He found faith immediately and saw his marriage to Ipek strengthened.

He entered politics immediately out of boredom, then found faith.
12 Why does Muhtar claim that he joined the Prosperity Party?
His rational and material minds were not satisfied completely by the Sheikh alone.

He wanted Ipek to feel safe in Kars.

He sees his own salvation as linked to the material liberation of Kars's poor.

He craves power and influence over all else.
13 Complete Necip's quote: "Political Islamist is only a name that Westerners and seculars give us Muslims who are ___."
unable to be silenced

ready to fight for our religion

standing in their way

more loyal to god than earthly regimes
14 The story that Blue tells Ka concerns ___.
Nasreddin, the Turkish folk satirist

Rüstem and Suhrab, two figures from the Shahnameh

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?
He looks urbane and European, in stark contrast to the provincial image of him painted by Western media.

His appearance recalls an old schoolmate of Ipek and Ka's.

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 ___.
intolerance

cruelty towards the natural world

passionate Love

suicidal thoughts
17 Ka is seemingly followed throughout his time in Kars by ___.
cats

raccoons

pigeons

dogs
18 After speaking with Necip and his friends in Chapter 9, Ka is inspired by the image of ___.
the snowman

the snowflake

the raincloud

the train station
19 Ka tells the Sheikh that he is scared of finding faith because ___.
he does not want to betray his secular parents

he thinks that religious people are always fooling themselves

he has been conditioned to see religion as the enemy of modernization

he does not want to have to confront the possibility of an afterlife
20 One of the central religious questions of the novel concerns ___.
whether religion is worthwhile and beneficial to society as a whole

whether one can find God after long periods of agnosticism

whether one can believe in God as an individual, without a religious community

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?
The suffering of the poor

Childhood diseases

Governmental corruption

True love
22 Necip tells Ka all of the following about Hicran's past EXCEPT ___.
that she found faith after teasing the religious girls and became their leader

that she was influenced by one of the suicidal girls from Batman

that she suggested that the covered girls in Kars shave their heads

that she came to Kars to do a shampoo commercial mocking the city
23 In reality, Hicran is an alias of ___.
Funda Eser, Sunay Zaim's wife

Kadife, Ipek's sister

Hande

Teslime
24 In Kadife's mind, snow can do which of the following?
Cast a blanket over conflicts and bring people together

Shut the unwanted filth of the world out

Bring about religious awakenings in the poor

Accentuate the already existing tensions within a city
25 Kadife says that her father's opinion of her wearing the headscarf ___.
has been uniformly negative

has been uniformly positive

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

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