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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Hermits.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is sent to the hermit after the angel?
(a) A wife.
(b) A rich man.
(c) A priest.
(d) A servant.

2. What do the two kings, Sharyar and his brother, Shah Zaman, vow?
(a) To find new wives.
(b) Not to ask the Jinni for favors.
(c) Never to trust women again.
(d) To tell the story of 'The Bull and the Ass' every day.

3. In the end of his story, Bukhayt became the property of ____________.
(a) The City of Cairo.
(b) The Palace of Baghdad.
(c) The High Council.
(d) The Royal Treasury.

4. In The Tale of the Portress in Chapter 3, what is the title of the third sister?
(a) The Caliph.
(b) Dunyazad.
(c) The procuratrix.
(d) The Portress.

5. What do the peahen and antelope agree upon as their only protection?
(a) Traveling to another island.
(b) Praising Allah.
(c) Joining the holy man.
(d) Avoiding the lynx.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, 'The Fisherman and the Jinni', what does NOT turn up in the fisherman's first three casts?

2. Because Ja'far cannot find the murderer of the woman, he and his family are what?

3. In The Tale of the Three Apples, what did the woman's husband bring her when she was ill?

4. Where does the Ensorcelled Prince's wicked wife build the tomb for the crippled slave?

5. What is Shams al-Din Mohammed's first daugher's name?

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