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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 the murderer plan to do next?
(a) To leave and hide somewhere until he can escape.
(b) Answer a summons to work on an important book.
(c) Kill all of the poeple who have just found out what he did.
(d) Go and turn himself in to the Head Treasurer.

2. Where does Osman believe that the horse that was drawn come from?
(a) His unrestricted beliefs.
(b) A person who is pretending to be the artist.
(c) The artist's past.
(d) The Sultan's private collection.

3. When the door to the Treasury is opened to let Black and Master Osman go home for the night, what do they request?
(a) To consult with the Sultan.
(b) To stay all night.
(c) To bring in all of hte artists.
(d) To take a book home.

4. What is unique about the missing illustration?
(a) It will embarrass the Sultan.
(b) It contains most of the gold leaf requisitioned.
(c) It was not completed.
(d) It will reveal too many details about the Sultan's life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Black prepare to arrange the murder to?

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

3. What does Shekure want Esther to find out?

4. Who does Black go to for help finding Shekure?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Butterfly disappointed about and what is he excited about?

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

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

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

7. Where does the pageboy lead Master Osman?

8. What does Esther tell Black?

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

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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