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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Esther curious about?
(a) What happened to the final illustration.
(b) What will happen between her and Hayriye.
(c) The rumors about Enishte's death.
(d) What will happen to Black.

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

3. What does Black find in Olive's home?
(a) Illustrations the storyteller had used.
(b) Elegant's drawing.
(c) Osman's possessions.
(d) Drawings of the horse.

4. Who comes to summon Master Osman?
(a) Esther.
(b) Stork.
(c) Pageboy.
(d) Black.

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

6. Who does Black go to for help finding Shekure?
(a) Shevket.
(b) Hayriye.
(c) Hasan.
(d) Esther.

7. Which object in the illustration can't Black and Master Osman determine who made it?
(a) Horse.
(b) House.
(c) Dog.
(d) Bull.

8. What does Esther look for between the two murders?
(a) People that were there.
(b) Differences.
(c) Officials that were solving it.
(d) Similarities.

9. Which of the following characters accompanies Master Osman and Black into the Inner Treasury?
(a) Hasan.
(b) Erzurum.
(c) Agha.
(d) Enishte.

10. Why does Black feel as if he must finish the book?
(a) To complete a process.
(b) To prove his innocence.
(c) To win Shekure.
(d) To honor his mentor.

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

12. What does Black demand of the murderer while pressing the dagger against his throat?
(a) To come with them to the Head Treasurer.
(b) Reason for his crimes.
(c) The missing picture.
(d) For him to confess.

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

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

15. Why does the murderer tell his companions at the coffeehouse two stories?
(a) To hear their point-of-view on the story.
(b) To spy on his fellow artists.
(c) To cover up his crimes.
(d) To ease his loneliness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Black and Master Osman find when they examine the horses drawn for the contest?

2. What does Black send Esther to go and get before he heads to Hasan's home?

3. What does the murderer suggest they do with Master Osman?

4. Who does Black prepare to arrange the murder to?

5. Who tells Black that Hasan is not home?

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