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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) By sending him away.
(b) With confusion and request for more information.
(c) With anger.
(d) With laughter and appreciation.

2. What happens to the sweep after he tells his story to the Emir?
(a) He is chosen to be an honored servant of the Wazir.
(b) He is killed by the Emir's wife.
(c) He is sent away by the queen.
(d) He is excused from hanging.

3. King Shaddad's son inscribed the king's tomb with what?
(a) A poetic warning against offending Allah.
(b) A song sung by the three angels.
(c) Their family name.
(d) The symbols for greed.

4. What does the ruined man find after digging in his backyard?
(a) A body.
(b) A lamp.
(c) A treasure.
(d) A bag of tools.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did one of the dogs do to the man who stole the gold while they were being fed?

2. What do the peahen and antelope agree upon as their only protection?

3. In what location does The Tale of Kamar Al-Zaman begin?

4. During a pilgrimage to Mecca in the story of The Sweep and The Noble Lady, pilgrims overhear a man praying for what?

5. Each Kalandar is...

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. In The Sweep and The Noble Lady, how did the Emir's pardon of the sweep seem just, although it was not the ultimate punishment (death)?

4. In The Story of King Shahryar and His Brother, the tale within a tale about the fisherman and the Jinni demonstrates the power of what kind of belief system?

5. Through this story of Nur Al-Din Ali And His Son Al-Din Hasan, how does Shahrazad indirectly remind King Shahryar of the value of family?

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

7. 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?

8. What are the fundamental differences in value systems between the duck and the three other animals; peahen, peacock and antelope metioned in The Tale of The Birds And The Beasts And The Carpenter?

9. What qualities does the Caliph show through his actions towards the sisters and princes in the Porter and The Three Ladies of Baghdad?

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

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