# Performance Check - Chapter 16

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- `UNPERFORMED - criterion 1 mission-statement prose` - strongest counter-candidate `"The painting could hang in any hallway. That was the problem"` is an in-world critique of a canvas, not the book addressing the audience.
- `UNPERFORMED - criterion 2 escalating triads` - WATCH hit `"pull, fill, sand, and paint flat"` is a literal make-ready process in Theo's work register, not applause cadence.
- `UNPERFORMED - criterion 3 paragraph-final applause` - `"The real one went over it. A room being made ready. Her own roller in the tray"` is paint-layer logic and object placement, not a ceremonial closer.
- `UNPERFORMED - criterion 4 chapter ending` - final 150 words stop on June leaving, catalogs armed, and Theo locking up with Odile's keys; no curtain summary.
- `UNPERFORMED - criterion 5 service-desk tone` - no canned reassurance; closest `"Nice save"` is Ben's literal reaction to a palette cup.

REVISION ORDERS: none.

OVERALL: `UNPERFORMED`.
