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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The City of Many-Columned Iram and Abdullah Son of Abi Kalibah.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the sons of the Wazir of Cairo think they should do in order to have a son and a daughter so that the cousins will pledge to marry?
(a) Go to the king for blessings.
(b) Consult the Holy Book.
(c) Invoke a Jinni.
(d) Get married on the same day,

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

3. Upon meeting the angel, the hermit does what?
(a) Ignores it.
(b) Makes it his slave.
(c) Takes it as a pet.
(d) Sends it away.

4. Because Ja'far cannot find the murderer of the woman, he and his family are what?
(a) Sentenced to 100 years in prison.
(b) Banished from the kingdom.
(c) Cursed by a demon.
(d) Sentenced to be hanged.

5. After refusing marriage a second time, the king becomes enraged with Kamar and does what?
(a) Imprisons him in a tower.
(b) Banishes him from the kingdom.
(c) Forbids him from marriage.
(d) Disowns him as his son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon seeing his father a second time, Ajib believes his father to be a what?

2. What does the nomad say that the Emir is?

3. The hermit is tested by being sent an angel in the form of a what?

4. According to lore, what happened to Kind Shaddad?

5. Of the men questioned by the Three Ladies of Baghdad, who was known to have loved sailing the seas?

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