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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 Master Osman do until the Sultan arrives?
(a) He looks at the nine illustrations.
(b) He decides Shekure and Black must no longer be married.
(c) He wonders who murdered Enishte.
(d) He pouts that he was not chosen for the secret book.

2. Where does Master Osman believe he and Black will be able to find the truth about the drawing?
(a) In the Sultan's garden.
(b) On one of the Venetian coins.
(c) In the coffeehouse.
(d) In the Treasury.

3. What does Master Osman complain about?
(a) The fact that one of his miniaturists did this act.
(b) Everything ending.
(c) The need to find the murderer.
(d) Black's lack of findiing the book.

4. What does Master Osman do with the plume needle?
(a) He turns it over to the dwarf.
(b) He puts it in his pocket.
(c) He says this is what the murderer used to kill Elegant.
(d) He pokes himself in the eyes with it.

5. What is the daughter in the parable known for in the story Master Osman tells Black?
(a) Her desire to win.
(b) Her beauty.
(c) Her humor.
(d) Her brains.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long are Black and his partner given to examine the clues?

2. What does Master Osman sense as he is looking at the work of Bihzad?

3. What does Hasan threaten when he comes to Shekure's home?

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

5. Why does Olive stop chasing Stork?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Esther feel about the funeral?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does the Head Treasurer apologize for?

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