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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 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.

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

3. What plans do the three officials make?
(a) To deny the death of Enishte.
(b) To dissolve Black's marriage.
(c) To trap the murderer.
(d) To search for the missing illustrations.

4. Which of the following characters is the murderer?
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Black.
(c) Stork.
(d) Olive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the door to the Treasury is opened to let Black and Master Osman go home for the night, what do they request?

2. Which of the following characters escapes the coffeehouse raid?

3. Why does the murderer go to the dervish lodge?

4. What does Black demand of the murderer while pressing the dagger against his throat?

5. What does Esther bring to Shekure?

Short Essay Questions

1. What returns for the funeral and how is it described?

2. What does Hasan threaten and what happens while they are arguing?

3. What do Black, Master Osman and the dwarf do while they are locked in the Inner Treasury?

4. What do Black and the other artists do to the murderer?

5. Where does the pageboy lead Master Osman?

6. What does the Commander of the Imperial Guard do to Black?

7. What two ways does Stork use to draw his horse?

8. What stories does Master Osman tell and what is his purpose in looking at the books?

9. What realization do Black and the other artists come to as they reminisce?

10. How does Shekure react to Black after she dreams about her father?

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