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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 is the maiden's name in the Story Julnar, The Sea-Born And Her Son King Badr Basim of Persia?
(a) Shriram.
(b) Jayalekshmi.
(c) Shanti.
(d) Julnar.

2. To whom do angry customers complain when Abu Sir cheats them?
(a) Allah.
(b) The King.
(c) The Caliph.
(d) The Kazi.

3. What does the Maghribi wizard pose as in Alaeddin: Or, The Wonderful Lamp?
(a) A Jinni.
(b) A long lost cousin.
(c) A slave.
(d) A long lost uncle.

4. How does Abu treat the strangers he entertains after the first visit in The Sleeper And The Waker?
(a) He pretends he is related to them.
(b) He ignores them.
(c) He slanders them.
(d) He invites them back only after one year.

5. In the story The Angel of Death With The Proud King And The Devout Man, what privilege is given the pious man when his death his imminent?
(a) He is given a fortune of gold to spend before death.
(b) He is allowed many years to tell people.
(c) He is allowed to have time before death.
(d) He is killed immediately rather than being made to suffer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Abu waste half of his father's money in The Sleeper And The Waker?

2. What does Kasim's wife ask Ali Baba to do after Kasim has been gone so long in Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves?

3. What is the name of the tribe of blacks encountered towards the end of the story of The City of Brass?

4. For how long was Abu Hasan a bodyguard for the foreign king in the story of How Abu Hasan Broke Wind?

5. What did Caliph bin Marwan hear about involving Lord Solomon in the story The City of Brass?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Khalifah The Fisherman of Baghdad, the reader witnesses the Caliph dispense mercy and cruelty with the whim of someone raised in a position of such absolute power that it distances him from the suffering of the common people, much like the fisherman Khalifah. How could this part of the story relate to Shahrazad's goal of changing the king's ways?

2. What moral does Shahrazad imply through her story in the story Julnar The Sea-Born And Her Son King Badr Basim of Persia?

3. What is the moral lesson about in The Angel of Death With The Proud King And The Devout Man?

4. In what ways in Judar And His Brethren does Shahrazad personify evil throughout her story?

5. What goal in Alaedddin: Or, The Wonderful Lamp may Shahrazad been trying to achieve through this story to the king?

6. What lesson does Shahrazad teach the king through her story in Sindbad The Seaman And Sindbad The Lands?

7. What does Shahrazad reinforce to her king through The Sleeper And The Waker?

8. How is Abu Kir's life like his business in Abu Kir The Dyer And Abu Sir The Barber?

9. In this tale of Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves, Shahrazad presents a servant girl as the hero. What may be the point of this story for Shahrazad in light of the king's attitude towards women?

10. How does the constant questioning of Sindbad the Seaman's identity throughout Sindbad The Seaman And Sindbad The Lands change the view of the nature of his character to listeners?

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