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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 is suspicious and apprehensive when asked to draw a horse?
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Stork.
(c) Olive.
(d) Osman.

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

3. What does Black find in Olive's home?
(a) Osman's possessions.
(b) Illustrations the storyteller had used.
(c) Drawings of the horse.
(d) Elegant's drawing.

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

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

6. What does Master Osman sense as he is looking at the work of Bihzad?
(a) That he knows who the murderer is.
(b) That Elegant's spirit has returned.
(c) That he will soon go blind.
(d) That Black has found the answer.

7. What does Black threaten Butterfly with?
(a) Blinding him with the plume.
(b) Turning him over to the Head Treasurer.
(c) Telling his wife that he is the murderer.
(d) A daggar.

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

9. Who does Black prepare to arrange the murder to?
(a) To the judge.
(b) Head treasurer.
(c) To Hasan.
(d) To the Sultan.

10. How does Master Osman think of his miniaturists?
(a) As if they are above the law.
(b) As if they have disappointed him greatly.
(c) As if they are his children.
(d) As if they are guilty.

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

12. What does Master Osman do with the plume needle?
(a) He turns it over to the dwarf.
(b) He puts it in his pocket.
(c) He says this is what the murderer used to kill Elegant.
(d) He pokes himself in the eyes with it.

13. What does Black demand of the murderer while pressing the dagger against his throat?
(a) To come with them to the Head Treasurer.
(b) For him to confess.
(c) Reason for his crimes.
(d) The missing picture.

14. How do Hayriye and Shekure announce Enishte's death to the neighborhood?
(a) They wail and shriek.
(b) They hang a black flag from the roof.
(c) They take an ad out in th epaper.
(d) They annouce it before they go to prayers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to summon Master Osman?

2. What does Kalbiye give to Esther?

3. Why does Olive stop chasing Stork?

4. Where is Master Osman summoned?

5. How does the Head Treasurer feel about Black's story?

(see the answer keys)

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