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

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

3. What is on the missing picture?
(a) A portrait of Master Osman.
(b) A picture of God.
(c) Another picture of the horse.
(d) An unskilled self-portrait.

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

5. What was the second story that the murderer told about?
(a) Seeing God's vision without going blind.
(b) Satan's place and duties in God's plan.
(c) Illustrations being destroyed.
(d) Illustrations appearing in other newer books.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Master Osman believe he and Black will be able to find the truth about the drawing?

2. How long has Black been back in Istanbul?

3. What is the murderer drawing a picture of that he becomes frustrated with and erases before he leaves to wander around again?

4. What does the murderer suggest they do with Master Osman?

5. Why does the murderer tell his companions at the coffeehouse two stories?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. What do Black and Master Osman do to help them figure out who drew all of the illustrations?

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

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

8. What does Osman wonder about the suspects of the murder and why does he wonder about this?

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

10. What specifically about the portrait the king requested is life like and how is it told that it is life like?

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