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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. How does the Caliph respond to the story of Ali The Persian?
(a) With laughter and appreciation.
(b) With anger.
(c) By sending him away.
(d) With confusion and request for more information.

2. In the story of Ali The Persian, why did Caliph Harun al-Rashid ask his Wazir for a storyteller?
(a) He needed an idea for the next day.
(b) He needed entertainment for a party.
(c) He couldn't sleep.
(d) His wife enjoyed stories.

3. If the tale impresses the Caliph, what does he promise to do?
(a) Banish the slave instead of killing him.
(b) Find another wife for the husband.
(c) Dismiss Ja'far.
(d) Allow the slave his life.

4. How does the man who stole the gold bowl repay the formerly wealthy man?
(a) He is not able to.
(b) By giving him money.
(c) By blessing him.
(d) By bringing him a slave.

5. Bukhayt was sold as a slave at the age of what?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Thirteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Kafur do each year as a boy?

2. In The Tale of Kamar Al-Zaman, what does Kamar chase for ten days?

3. What does the Emir do after meeting the nomad and returning home?

4. At the end of the story of The Three Apples, what tale does Ja'afar refer to?

5. According to the First Kalandar, when he returned to his kingdom for the first time, he found what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of a character is the hermit in The Hermits?

2. How is Shahrazad able to hint at the king's faults through this story of The City of Many-Columned Iram and Abdullah Son of Abi Kalibah indirectly?

3. How in the Tale of Ghanim in Ayyub, The Distraught, The Thrall O'Love does Shahrazad strive to replace King Shahryar's distrust of women with doubt over his belief?

4. How might Shahrazad's tale in The Tale of The Three Apples whittle away at the king's assumption that all women are faithless and untrustworthy?

5. In the opening chapter of The Story of King Shahryar And His Brother, Shahrazad is spared eligibility for beheading because she is one of the Wazir's daughters. Is her request to marry the king an act of fate/Allah's power, or rather an a human aspect of her personality?

6. Correlate the experience of visiting the Caliph for help/direction in the Porter and The Three Ladies of Baghdad to visiting another person of power for help in the present day.

7. What does Shahrazad teach the king through The Sweep and The Noble Lady?

8. In the story of Nur Al-Din Ali And His Son Al-Din Hasan, how does Shahrazad continue to work towards her goal of convincing King Shahhryar to change his beliefs about women?

9. What kind of moral is offered in the story in The Man Who Stole The Dish of Gold Wherein The Dog Ate?

10. What is the purpose of Shahrazad deciding to tell this seemingly innocuous story to the king in Ali The Persian?

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