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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 does Esther look for between the two murders?
(a) Differences.
(b) Officials that were solving it.
(c) People that were there.
(d) Similarities.

2. Who tells Black that Hasan is not home?
(a) Shevket.
(b) A blind beggar.
(c) Esther.
(d) Chelebi.

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

4. What does the murderer suggest they do with Master Osman?
(a) Take the illustrations and coins and leave.
(b) Talk to the Sultan about how cruel he is.
(c) Kill him before he turns them in.
(d) Blame him for all of the deaths.

5. What do Black and Master Osman find when they examine the horses drawn for the contest?
(a) Osman could no longer see and had gone blind.
(b) They are of a much poorer quality than the other drawings.
(c) No one seemed to follow the directions.
(d) None have the strange nostrils.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Master Osman complain about?

2. What does Shekure tell her boys about her new husband?

3. What is delivered while Master Osman and Black are examining the illustrations?

4. Who does Hasan believe murdered Eshite?

5. What does Master Osman do with the plume needle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Black tell the clerk at the Head Treasurer's chamber and what does he think might happen if it doesn't go well?

2. What does Esther tell Black?

3. What does Butterfly explain while Black searches for the illustrations?

4. Why can't Master Osman give his full attention to the task of looking for the illustrations?

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

6. Where does the pageboy lead Master Osman?

7. Where does Black take Shekure, Hayriye and Esther?

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

9. How does Esther feel about the funeral?

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

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