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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Enishte?
(a) Black's uncle.
(b) Elegant's father.
(c) Elegant's uncle.
(d) Black's father.

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

3. What does Black want Shekure to know?
(a) His love for her.
(b) His desire to run away.
(c) His knowledge of her plans.
(d) His plans for the investigation.

4. In addition to the Book of Festivities, what does the Sultan know the others are working on?
(a) A secret book.
(b) The murder of Elegant.
(c) Their own individual projects.
(d) A new design for the coins.

5. Where does Black go to start his investigation?
(a) Artisans' workshop.
(b) Elegant's home.
(c) Shekure's house.
(d) Sultan's house.

6. What does Olive believe miniaturists aspire to become?
(a) Great.
(b) In debt.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Blind.

7. What does the murderer pick up before he confesses his crime?
(a) A rope.
(b) A copy of the book.
(c) A large and heavy stone
(d) An ink pot.

8. What does Enishte hope to share with Black?
(a) Spiritual awareness.
(b) Love of books.
(c) Secrets to book illustrating.
(d) Wisdom from the ages.

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

10. What finalizes the love letter effect according to Esther?
(a) The enclosed illustration.
(b) The symbol of a kiss.
(c) The use of formal stationary.
(d) The perfume scent.

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

12. What does Shekure have Hayriye take to Elegant's widow?
(a) A basket of food.
(b) Halva.
(c) An illustration.
(d) A letter.

13. How many suitors does Shekure have?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Black actually asking the miniaturists Master Osman's questions?

2. Where is the soul of Elegant as the story opens?

3. What caused Shevket to accept his father is dead?

4. What makes Black suspicious about all three artists?

5. Where do Black and Shekure marry?

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