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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the cook sell Sham?
(a) Sham is too disobedient.
(b) The king orders the sale.
(c) To punish Agba.
(d) The cook has too many debts.

2. Why is Benjamin afraid to ride Sham?
(a) He saw Sham kick the carter.
(b) He has never ridden a horse before.
(c) Sham appears to be too wild to ride.
(d) Sham bit him.

3. What does Agba see the mare doing when he wakes in Chapter 3?
(a) Eating corn.
(b) Drying her newborn foal.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Giving birth.

4. Who gives the Sultan's horses amulets?
(a) The Sultan's first wife.
(b) Signor Achmet.
(c) Agba.
(d) The Sultan.

5. Who supposedly makes the wind transform into the mare?
(a) Allah.
(b) A genie.
(c) The Jinn.
(d) Aladdin's lamp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Sultan want Signor Achmet to select six horses and six horse boys?

2. Who owns the horses that Agba tends?

3. What animal also lives in Sham's shed in Chapter 12?

4. What is desirable about Sham's neck?

5. What mark does Agba notice on the new foal?

(see the answer key)

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