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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 38-39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only thing that Shekure says she thinks about in her letter?
(a) Her missing husband.
(b) What her father has said about her and Black.
(c) What happened to Elegant.
(d) The years Black has been away.

2. When the storyteller switches to talking about the tree why does he explain that completing the book has become complicated?
(a) Because the librarian was murdered.
(b) Because the Sultan has declared it illegal to make books.
(c) Because the patron of the book is banished.
(d) Because paper has become difficult to find.

3. Where does Shekure find her father's body?
(a) In his workshop.
(b) Lying on the porch.
(c) Outside on the lawn.
(d) In her room.

4. Whose approval does the judge say Shekure needs before he can grant the divorce?
(a) Her own.
(b) Guardians.
(c) Brothers.
(d) Husbands.

5. Where does Shekure drag her father's body?
(a) To her own room.
(b) To his workshop with the blue door.
(c) To the summer painting room.
(d) To the outhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Master Osman do until the Sultan arrives?

2. What does Esther tell Shekure when she gives him the two letters?

3. Why does Hayriye air out the house?

4. What is Esther curious about?

5. Who ends up delivering the letter to Black?

(see the answer key)

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