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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following characters accompanies Master Osman and Black into the Inner Treasury?
(a) Enishte.
(b) Agha.
(c) Hasan.
(d) Erzurum.

2. What does Esther do while Black and his men attack the house?
(a) Takes Hasan's ruby-handled dagger.
(b) Encourages Shekure to fight Black and his men.
(c) Hides with Shevket.
(d) Tries to convince Shekure to leave.

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

4. Why does the murderer tell his companions at the coffeehouse two stories?
(a) To spy on his fellow artists.
(b) To cover up his crimes.
(c) To hear their point-of-view on the story.
(d) To ease his loneliness.

5. What is the daughter in the parable known for in the story Master Osman tells Black?
(a) Her humor.
(b) Her beauty.
(c) Her desire to win.
(d) Her brains.

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

7. 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.

8. Who does Black go to for help finding Shekure?
(a) Esther.
(b) Hasan.
(c) Shevket.
(d) Hayriye.

9. What does Master Osman complain about?
(a) The need to find the murderer.
(b) The fact that one of his miniaturists did this act.
(c) Black's lack of findiing the book.
(d) Everything ending.

10. 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) Master Osman.
(d) Self-portrait.

11. How does Hasan hope to prove his innocence?
(a) By going to the judge.
(b) By being tortured.
(c) By taking care of Shekure.
(d) By finishing the book.

12. What does Hasan threaten when he comes to Shekure's home?
(a) To tell her father what she has done.
(b) To take her boys away from her.
(c) To kill Black.
(d) The security of her marriage.

13. Why does Esther have Black stop the attack and Orhan open the door?
(a) She wants Black to protect her.
(b) She is afraid of Black.
(c) Shekure has told her to open the door.
(d) She fears revenge from Hasan.

14. Who is Chelebi?
(a) A man who falls in love with a woman he has seen at an open window.
(b) Hasan's new love interest.
(c) Shekure's mother-in-law.
(d) An Erzurumi preacher.

15. What happens when Black returns from the funeral?
(a) Master Osman is waiting for him.
(b) A royal page summons him to the palace.
(c) Shekure tells him she wants a divorce.
(d) A page summons him to the Head Treasurer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Shekure want Esther to find out?

2. What does the murderer tell his fellow diner that knows nothing of art, that he is a what?

3. What was the second story that the murderer told about?

4. Who does Hasan believe murdered Eshite?

5. Why does Olive stop chasing Stork?

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