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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. What does the Kurd do when he sees Ali with what he is holding?
(a) Drops to his knees praying.
(b) Claims it is his.
(c) Claims that Ali is his brother.
(d) Drops to his knees crying.

2. 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) Consult the Holy Book.
(b) Go to the king for blessings.
(c) Get married on the same day,
(d) Invoke a Jinni.

3. In The Tale of the Three Apples, who does the Caliph decree responsible for the woman's death?
(a) The husband of the woman.
(b) The Caliph's daughter.
(c) The lying slave.
(d) The slave's wife.

4. When the three slaves met by Ghanim Bin Ayyub enter the courtyard, what DON'T they have?
(a) A jeweled mirror.
(b) A chest.
(c) A basket full of mortar.
(d) A lantern.

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

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 two kings, Sharyar and his brother, Shah Zaman, vow?

3. Why does the poor man take the dog's bowl to the market?

4. What does the ruined man find after digging in his backyard?

5. To whom does Abdullah first report this newfound news?

Short Essay Questions

1. What message through the story is meant for the King from Shahrazad in The City of Many-Columned Iram and Abdullah Son of Abi Kalibah?

2. 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.

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. What is one moral implied by Shahrazad in the Tale of Ghanim in Ayyub, The Distraught, The Thrall O'Love?

5. What does the circular nature and connectedness of the happenings in The Tale of The Three Apples imply?

6. 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?

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

8. Of what symbolic use were the tokens (signet rings) to the two lovestruck characters in The Tale of Kamar Al-Zaman?

9. How do faith and destiny align in The Tale of Kamar Al-Zaman?

10. 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?

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