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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 do people's hearts know in silence?
(a) The answers to every question
(b) The secrets of day and night
(c) The reason for their existence
(d) The right way to act

2. Who speaks again to ask about reason and passion?
(a) A commoner
(b) The priest
(c) The priestess
(d) A couple

3. Reason and passion are the rudders and sails of the ________.
(a) Child.
(b) Poet.
(c) Heart.
(d) Soul.

4. What can yield treasure?
(a) Patience.
(b) Love making.
(c) Digging for roots.
(d) Friendship.

5. What does Almustafa want to be remembered as?
(a) A light.
(b) A beginning.
(c) A priest.
(d) A savior.

Short Answer Questions

1. Almustafa says that pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses what?

2. Who asks Almustafa about time?

3. Who claims to have heard beauty shouting in the mountains with the sounds of wild beasts?

4. One must know pain in order to see what in one's life?

5. Who says that beauty will rise with the dawn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the only purpose of friendship?

2. What do people's hearts already know, according to Almustafa?

3. When a teacher asks Almustafa about teaching, what does he say one can reveal?

4. Much of one's talking does what, according to Almustafa?

5. Who can those desiring to learn about pleasure take a lesson from, aside from Almustafa?

6. Where does one's giant self lie, according to Almustafa?

7. While Almustafa compares the soul to a battlefield, what does he wish his role in this conflict to be?

8. Since one should not speak about finding "the" truth, what should a person do?

9. What can one person's vision unable to do, according to Almustafa?

10. How does Almustafa define pain?

(see the answer keys)

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