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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Shevket bring back to Black?

2. What do Enishte and Shekure discuss after Black leaves?

3. Where does Black want Shekure to meet him?

4. What does Shekure do that Esther says further invites love?

5. When the storyteller switches to talking about the tree why does he explain that completing the book has become complicated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Orhan recount that Enishte and Black discussed in regard to Elegant and the cause of his murder?

2. What does Shekure request must happen before she will marry him and how does Black ensure it happens?

3. What do the illustrations show that Enishte shows Black?

4. What are the illustration techniques a blend of?

5. What does Shekure give Black and yet still insist upon before they can be together?

6. What did Black spend the past twelve years doing and how did he support himself?

7. What is in Hasan's letter?

8. What is Esther's opinion of young maidens and romance?

9. What happens when Enishte meets up with Butterfly and what description could be used for Butterfly?

10. What does Enishte tell the murderer is the third stage of patronage of the arts?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think Death told the story of the arguments between Enishte and the artists to complete the pictures in the Venetian style? What insights does Death's stories provide for the reader?

Essay Topic 2

How did Olive escape from the other artists? Do you think they tried with all of their best skills to stop him? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Why does the murderer fear change? Do you believe he justifies killing so that there will be no change? Why or why not?

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