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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. How many times did Khalifah cast his fishing net in Khalifah The Fisherman of Baghdad?
(a) Three.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty-three.

2. What does the king do when confronted by the man in rags in the story The Angel of Death With The Proud King And The Devout Man?
(a) He falls dead off his horse.
(b) He orders the man killed.
(c) He laughs and goes on his way.
(d) He curses the man.

3. What does Abu Kir convince Abu Sir of doing?
(a) Going to find wives in Cairo.
(b) Breaking into the jail.
(c) Shutting down his shop and going into business with Abu Kir.
(d) Running away to Cairo to meet the king there.

4. What does the lady with the five suitors originally request the carpenter to build?
(a) A five-tiered dresser with locking drawers.
(b) A three-tiered dresser with locking doors.
(c) A special locking box with two doors.
(d) A four section closet with separate locking doors.

5. In Sindbad The Seaman And Sindbad The Landsman, how many voyages does Sindbad The Seaman have?
(a) Eight.
(b) Three.
(c) Seven.
(d) Twelve.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story of The Lady And Her Five Suitors, what do the men do after being freed?

2. What does the first animal that is caught tell Khalifah to do?

3. After he stops him, what does the man in rags tell the king in the story The Angel of Death With The Proud King And The Devout Man?

4. What does King Sabur release the Persian from in the story of The Ebony Horse?

5. In the story Judar And His Brethren, after Omar dies, what do his two wicked sons do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why might it be in Shahrazad's interests to decide to tell this story to the king in The City of Brass?

2. In The Angel of Death With The Proud King And The Devout Man is described a wealthy man and a poor one. What are the fundamental differences in the reasons for why each man personally lived his life?

3. What in How Abu Hasan Bake Wind does Shahrazad imply about shame?

4. What goal in Alaedddin: Or, The Wonderful Lamp may Shahrazad been trying to achieve through this story to the king?

5. What is ironic about the fact of Abu Hasan breaking wind in How Abu Hasan Bake Wind?

6. In what ways in Judar And His Brethren does Shahrazad personify evil throughout her story?

7. Consider the saying "One cannot fully escape the past." How is this saying proven in Ma'aruf The Cobbler And His Wife Fatimah?

8. In the tale of Ma'aruf The Cobbler And His Wife Fatimah, Shahrazad demonstrates the difference between a good wife and a wicked one. How could this relate to Shahrazad's goals in the long run between herself and the king?

9. What is the moral lesson about in The Angel of Death With The Proud King And The Devout Man?

10. How is the ending of this story from The Ebony Horse a very direct and personally-related implication to the king from Shahrazad?

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