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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 is Black thinking about as he pretends to listen to Enishte's stories?
(a) What will happen when the story is finished.
(b) When he will be free to write the story.
(c) Where Shekure is.
(d) Who killed Elegant.

2. What concerns the murder the most?
(a) The sin of the illustrations.
(b) The punishment for killing Elegant.
(c) The judgment of his friends.
(d) Retribution from Black.

3. Who is Black in love with?
(a) Orhan.
(b) Enishte.
(c) Hayriye.
(d) Shekure.

4. When are Black and Shekure to marry?
(a) The next week.
(b) That night.
(c) That afternoon.
(d) In the morning.

5. How many stages does Enishte indicate there are for the love of art by its patrons?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the murderer think about killing next?

2. Where does Shekure want people to think she went when she leaves the house?

3. Why does Black believe there is rioting at the Sultan's palace?

4. Why did Black and his brother bribe the judge?

5. How does Shekure disguise the names in the picture that Black gave her?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Shekure feel about Black?

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

3. What happens before Olive can show Black any of the specific illustrations?

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

5. What does Shekure give Black and yet still insist upon before they can be together?

6. What did Black spend the past twelve years doing and how did he support himself?

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

8. What does Esther believe about the letter that she has just delivered to Black and how does she explain her reasoning?

9. Why is the proxy judge tense for a moment before granting the divorce?

10. What is a brief history of the secret book and what does Enishte think about the portraits?

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