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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 Shekure tell her boys about her new husband?
(a) That he will take Enishte's place.
(b) That he does not want them around.
(c) That they need to respect him.
(d) That they need to call him father.

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

3. What does Shekure dream about?
(a) Black was the murderer.
(b) Hasan had killed Black.
(c) Black was also killed by the murderer.
(d) Her father was alive again.

4. What is Master Osman working on?
(a) A wedding surprise.
(b) The funeral arrangements.
(c) Secret Book.
(d) Book of Festivities.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Enishte's murderer steal from the house?

3. What does Shekure want Esther to find out?

4. What happens when Black returns from the funeral?

5. What does Black find in Olive's home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Butterfly and Black find when they enter the coffeehouse?

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

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

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

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

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 do Black and the other artists do to the murderer?

9. What does Esther tell Black?

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

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