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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unique about the missing illustration?
(a) It contains most of the gold leaf requisitioned.
(b) It was not completed.
(c) It will embarrass the Sultan.
(d) It will reveal too many details about the Sultan's life.

2. Where is Master Osman summoned?
(a) Hasan's home.
(b) To Enshite's home.
(c) Black's home.
(d) Head Treasurer.

3. Which of the following characters is suspicious and apprehensive when asked to draw a horse?
(a) Stork.
(b) Osman.
(c) Olive.
(d) Butterfly.

4. What did Enishte's murderer steal from the house?
(a) All of the money in the house.
(b) Nothing.
(c) All of the illustrations for the book.
(d) The final illustration.

5. What does Hasan threaten when he comes to Shekure's home?
(a) The security of her marriage.
(b) To kill Black.
(c) To tell her father what she has done.
(d) To take her boys away from her.

6. Which of the following characters is the murderer?
(a) Black.
(b) Stork.
(c) Olive.
(d) Butterfly.

7. Who is Chelebi?
(a) An Erzurumi preacher.
(b) Hasan's new love interest.
(c) A man who falls in love with a woman he has seen at an open window.
(d) Shekure's mother-in-law.

8. What is delivered while Master Osman and Black are examining the illustrations?
(a) A letter from Hasan.
(b) A story from the storyteller at the coffee shop.
(c) A letter for Shekure and the illustrations from Elegant's body.
(d) The last illustration.

9. What does Shekure dream about?
(a) Black was the murderer.
(b) Hasan had killed Black.
(c) Black was also killed by the murderer.
(d) Her father was alive again.

10. What is the daughter in the parable known for in the story Master Osman tells Black?
(a) Her brains.
(b) Her humor.
(c) Her desire to win.
(d) Her beauty.

11. Which of the following characters escapes the coffeehouse raid?
(a) Master Osman.
(b) Black.
(c) Stork.
(d) Butterfly.

12. What is Master Osman working on?
(a) Book of Festivities.
(b) Secret Book.
(c) A wedding surprise.
(d) The funeral arrangements.

13. How does Hasan hope to prove his innocence?
(a) By being tortured.
(b) By taking care of Shekure.
(c) By finishing the book.
(d) By going to the judge.

14. Why does the murderer go to the dervish lodge?
(a) For dinner.
(b) Ritual cleaning.
(c) To look at the illustration he has hidden there.
(d) To ponder what to do next.

15. Why does Butterfly go into the room where his wife is hiding?
(a) To say goodbye.
(b) To prove he did not draw the horse.
(c) To get his sword.
(d) To bring out the drawings.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Hayriye and Shekure announce Enishte's death to the neighborhood?

2. How does the Head Treasurer feel about Black's story?

3. What is Esther curious about?

4. Which of the following characters accompanies Master Osman and Black into the Inner Treasury?

5. Which object in the illustration can't Black and Master Osman determine who made it?

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