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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Black suspicious about all three artists?
(a) The way they avoid answering the question.
(b) The use of the color red.
(c) The quality of their illustrations.
(d) Their nervous habits.

2. Where is the soul of Elegant as the story opens?
(a) Limbo.
(b) Heaven.
(c) On earth.
(d) Hell.

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

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

5. Who is spying on Black?
(a) Shekure.
(b) Hasan.
(c) Orhan.
(d) Sultan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Esther do before she takes Black's letter to Shekure?

2. Why does Enishte say that Black is finishing the book?

3. Who ends up delivering the letter to Black?

4. How does Butterfly answer the question?

5. What is Butterfly working on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is in Hasan's letter?

2. What does Stork believe happens when an illustrator stops aiming for perfection?

3. What does the murderer hope will happen if Enishte fears him?

4. What is the story of how Black was asked to leave Istanbul?

5. What is Esther's first stop before delivering Black's letter to Shekure and what is the tone of Black's letter?

6. What does Enishte tell the murderer is the third stage of patronage of the arts?

7. What does Orhan recount that Enishte and Black discussed in regard to Elegant and the cause of his murder?

8. What does Enishte wonder about Shekure and Black?

9. What are the illustration techniques a blend of?

10. What does Elegant think his friends and family are thinking he is doing?

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