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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, An Historical Sketch of Babylon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is universal?
(a) The desire to be beautiful.
(b) The desire to be lucky.
(c) The desire to be happy.
(d) The desire to be alone.

2. What does Mathon tell Dabasir?
(a) To find a business in which he is knowledgeable.
(b) To go back to Sira.
(c) To sell his camel.
(d) To give up on his wife.

3. What is the lesson of the chapter?
(a) Better to be rich for a moment than not rich at all.
(b) Better to listen to the wise than to counsel with the dumb.
(c) Better to spend it all than die rich.
(d) Better a little caution than a great regret.

4. How does this chapter begin?
(a) With Kobbi's story.
(b) With Arkad's story.
(c) With Arad's story.
(d) With a Babylonian proverb.

5. From what should Arkad take this amount of savings?
(a) His family's inheritance.
(b) Strangers.
(c) His income before his other expenses.
(d) His savings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Dabasir's wife?

2. How do Kobbi and Bansir know Arkad?

3. Who is the friend of the answer to #2?

4. How long did enemies circle the city before concentrating on the gates?

5. Who does Bansir want to help?

(see the answer key)

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