The Arabian Nights Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 50:

1.

What subtler message does Shahrazad give the King with this story? (from Chapter 21, The Lady and Her Five Suitors)

How a clever woman can help him rule his subjects.

How powerful men relinquish their power when they let sex rule their lives.

Why he should never enter a closet.

How he can be fooled by what he sees.

2.

Why does Ma'aruf return with Kunafah sweetened with cane sugar syrup? (from Chapter 29, Ma'aruf the Cobbler and His Wife Fatimah)

He does not notice the difference.

He thinks Fatimah will like the cane syrup better.

The baker who gives the cakes to him is out of honey.

He forgets to tell the baker to put honey on the Kunafah.

3.

Why does a King dress in his finest clothes and ride out on his finest steed? (from Chapter 18, The Angel of Death With The Proud King And The Devout Man)

He looks for a beautiful virgin to marry.

He is going to a wedding.

So the people will admire him.

Because all his other clothes were dirty.

4.

What is the sweep's relationship with the noble lady? (from Chapter 12, The Sweep and the Noble Lady)

She pays him to sleep with her.

He had loved her since he was a boy.

He watches her bathe while he was on the roof of her house.

She lets him see her undressed but he cannot not touch.

5.

Who comes up on a mule to Judar with a strange request to throw him in the lake? (from Chapter 22, Judar and His Brethren)

A merchant.

A hamm.

A moor.

A Jinn.

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