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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what time period was this story set?
(a) Early 17th century.
(b) Early 15th century.
(c) Late 16th century.
(d) Late 18th century.

2. What work did Elegant do when he was alive?
(a) Pasha.
(b) Secretary work.
(c) Illuminator.
(d) Coffee house worker.

3. Where does Enishte say they have been doing most of their work?
(a) In the studio behind his home.
(b) Workshop and homes of Master Osman.
(c) In the local coffee shops.
(d) Near the Sultan's home.

4. How does Butterfly answer the question?
(a) With three parables on style and signature.
(b) With three parables about blindness and memory.
(c) With three stores on time and painting.
(d) With specific illustrations.

5. Why is Black actually asking the miniaturists Master Osman's questions?
(a) To steal secrets to improve his own skill level.
(b) To look for clues for Elegant's disappearance.
(c) To hear different points of view.
(d) To give him an excuse to be in the room.

6. What does Enishte tell Black that the Sultan wants to regain?
(a) Control over his people.
(b) Management of the money and inflation.
(c) The style of the Franks.
(d) The trust of those that are miniatures.

7. Where does Shekure want people to think she went when she leaves the house?
(a) Out to pray.
(b) Out to Hasan's home.
(c) Out with the boys.
(d) Out to visit her brother.

8. What does Enishte ask Black to investigate?
(a) How he can increase his profits.
(b) Shekure's husband's whereabouts.
(c) What happened to Orhan.
(d) Elegant's disappearance.

9. What do Enishte and Shekure discuss after Black leaves?
(a) The Sultan's secret book.
(b) Whether he will find Elegant's murderer.
(c) How good of an writer Black is.
(d) Whether he would make a good husband.

10. What is Shekure waiting for?
(a) Her husband to return from the war.
(b) Black to return to their village.
(c) Enishte to allow her to move away.
(d) Her child to be born.

11. What does Esther do before she takes Black's letter to Shekure?
(a) She talks to Master Osman.
(b) She stops for nightly prayers.
(c) She visits Hasan.
(d) She goes to the funeral services for Elegant.

12. Who is Sheikh Muhammad of Isfahan?
(a) The next Sultan.
(b) Another murderer.
(c) The narrator in the coffee shop.
(d) A wonderful artist.

13. Where does Black want Shekure to meet him?
(a) Where Elegant was murdered.
(b) In her father's work studio.
(c) At the outhouse.
(d) In the house of the hanged Jew.

14. For what is Enishte grateful to the murderer for?
(a) For protecting the secret book.
(b) For not killing him earlier.
(c) Preventing problems from Erzurumis.
(d) For doing what he thinks is right.

15. What does Shekure do that Esther says further invites love?
(a) She writes in a very fancy script.
(b) She perfumed the letter.
(c) She leaves the mark of a kiss on the envelope.
(d) She signs the letter with love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What concerns the murder the most?

2. How many stages does Enishte indicate there are for the love of art by its patrons?

3. Who is spying on Black?

4. Where does Shekure drag her father's body?

5. How has Hasan ruined his chances with Shekure?

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