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

2. Why does Butterfly go into the room where his wife is hiding?
(a) To prove he did not draw the horse.
(b) To say goodbye.
(c) To get his sword.
(d) To bring out the drawings.

3. What does Shekure say must happen before she will sleep with Black?
(a) He must finish the book.
(b) The murderer must be caught.
(c) Her boys must be grown.
(d) Enishte must be buried.

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

5. Where does Osman believe that the horse that was drawn come from?
(a) The artist's past.
(b) A person who is pretending to be the artist.
(c) His unrestricted beliefs.
(d) The Sultan's private collection.

6. How does the Head Treasurer feel about Black's story?
(a) He holds him in custody.
(b) He dissolves his marriage to Shekure.
(c) He hangs him.
(d) He believes him.

7. Why does Black accuse Butterfly of betraying Master Osman?
(a) Because he wanted to leave the workshop.
(b) Because Osman critized his drawing.
(c) Because Osman is cruel.
(d) Because Osman is not blind.

8. What does Master Osman do until the Sultan arrives?
(a) He decides Shekure and Black must no longer be married.
(b) He looks at the nine illustrations.
(c) He wonders who murdered Enishte.
(d) He pouts that he was not chosen for the secret book.

9. What does the murderer plan to do next?
(a) Answer a summons to work on an important book.
(b) To leave and hide somewhere until he can escape.
(c) Kill all of the poeple who have just found out what he did.
(d) Go and turn himself in to the Head Treasurer.

10. Who does Black have to work with to solve the murder?
(a) Sultan.
(b) Hasan.
(c) Master Osman.
(d) Shekure.

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

12. What is the murderer drawing a picture of that he becomes frustrated with and erases before he leaves to wander around again?
(a) Horse.
(b) God's vision.
(c) Self-portrait.
(d) Master Osman.

13. What regrets does Master Osman have about his own workshop after looking at Bihzad's work?
(a) That his workshop will now have to end.
(b) That his workshop never came close to that quality.
(c) That his workshop was unable to finish their work.
(d) That his workshop had not employed Bihzad.

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

15. What does Shekure ask Black to do in regard to her boys?
(a) To take a firm hand with them.
(b) To help them learn the skill of illustrating.
(c) To be patient and forgiving to them.
(d) To help them through their mourning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Black returns from the funeral?

2. How long has Black been back in Istanbul?

3. What did Enishte's murderer steal from the house?

4. What is unique about the missing illustration?

5. Where is Master Osman summoned?

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