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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Enishte and the murderer talk about in regard to their art?
(a) Whether they will ever finish it.
(b) Whether or not Black will help them finish it.
(c) Whether it is good enough.
(d) Whether it is blasphemous.

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

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

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

5. What secret does the murderer disclose about the secret book?
(a) That it is inferior.
(b) That it is no longer secret and has enemies.
(c) That it needs to be stopped immediately.
(d) That it is the reason Elegant was killed.

6. What causes Shekure to stop spying?
(a) Black finds her spying.
(b) Her father calls her.
(c) Her sons come into the room.
(d) It is time to head to the house of the hanged Jew.

7. What does Black see when he looks back at the house near the pomegranate tree?
(a) Children watching him ride away.
(b) Elegant's murderer.
(c) His lost love's face.
(d) Enishte watching him carefully.

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

9. When does Shekure indicated she will marry Black?
(a) After the book is finished.
(b) As soon as possible.
(c) After her father dies.
(d) When she can move back home.

10. What does Black think the story he writes for the strange illustrations will win him?
(a) Eternal life.
(b) Sultan.
(c) Shekure.
(d) Elegant's murderer.

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

12. Why do Shevket and Orhan want to observe Black?
(a) He may become their father.
(b) He is kind to both of them.
(c) He will find Elegant's killer.
(d) He is well known as a writer.

13. Why is it difficult for Esther to read the letter to Black?
(a) She does not speak the same language.
(b) She is illiterate.
(c) She cannot read script writing.
(d) The handwriting is blurred from the water.

14. What does Hayriye bring to Black?
(a) The final picture for the story.
(b) A letter from Enishte.
(c) A letter from Sheket.
(d) Another letter from Shekure.

15. Why does Enishte say he will not finish the secret book?
(a) Because of the murder.
(b) Because of the Sultan.
(c) Because of the dog.
(d) Because of Shekure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What topics do Hasan and Esther gossip about?

2. Who does the Sultan plan to offer the secret book to?

3. What does the murderer pick up before he confesses his crime?

4. What does Enishte say that no art is?

5. What is the topic of the list of things that Shekure gives Black?

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