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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. Who asks Almustafa about buying and selling?
(a) A merchant
(b) An innkeeper
(c) A young sailor
(d) A man

2. What can Almustafa not speak to the Orphalese people?
(a) A certain verse
(b) English
(c) His innermost secret
(d) Casual slang

3. Despots can not be dethroned without destroying the _______ that people erect within themselves.
(a) Stubborness
(b) Openness
(c) Ignorance
(d) Throne

4. What do people do for fear they will need them tomorrow?
(a) Save all their money.
(b) Buy more than one house.
(c) Have lots of children.
(d) Guard their possessions.

5. Everything moves within one's ___________.
(a) Sheltered existence
(b) Half embrace
(c) Mind
(d) Heart

Short Answer Questions

1. The house is one's larger body and never without ____________.

2. Working with love binds people to themselves and to _______.

3. What does Almustafa describe as a yoke and a handcuff?

4. Who begs Almustafa to remain?

5. Those who give with pain are ____________ in that pain.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Almustafa say he has observed when the orator asks about freedom?

2. What does Almustafa say to Almitra about marriage?

3. What do some say about birth and about the flesh?

4. What else should be weighed in a wife's infidelity?

5. To those who view life as a rock, what does Almustafa say?

6. Who is the chosen and the beloved who is giving the lessons throughout The Prophet?

7. What is the one thing that Almustafa can not speak?

8. Who is the seer that understands the answer to Almustafa's longing for his homeland?

9. What four things has Almustafa been to the people of Orphalese?

10. What does the exchanging of gifts do for people, according to Almustafa?

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