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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Bansir and Kobbi wonder?
(a) Whether moving away is a good idea.
(b) How much money Arkad has
(c) Why some flourish but most struggle to survive
(d) If they should team up to start a business.

2. What does the saddle maker propose?
(a) To think long and hard about decisions.
(b) To eat.
(c) To leave Arkad's teachings.
(d) To make a payment as quickly as possible.

3. What is the profession of the person in #27?
(a) Carpet maker.
(b) Baker.
(c) Moneylender.
(d) King.

4. What is fickle and can not be trusted?
(a) Destiny.
(b) The banks.
(c) The lenders.
(d) Fate.

5. Who did not care for this custom?
(a) Abad.
(b) Bansir.
(c) Arkad.
(d) Algamish.

6. Who does Arkad meet?
(a) Shurru Nada.
(b) Arad.
(c) Nomosir.
(d) Algamish.

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

8. Of whom does the person in #73 want to tell the story?
(a) Arkad.
(b) Bansir.
(c) Nomasir.
(d) Abad.

9. Why does the man regret not taking the advice?
(a) The venture would have helped his friend.
(b) It would have led him to a more beautiful wife.
(c) The venture proved quite lucrative.
(d) It would have helped him find a new home.

10. Of what can no one name an instance?
(a) When they have won a lottery.
(b) When they have heard better advice.
(c) When they haven't been poor.
(d) When luck has increased their wealth.

11. What does Arkad tell people to include in their budget?
(a) Only necessary purchases.
(b) Big expenses.
(c) Money for charity.
(d) Luxuries.

12. What is the first law?
(a) To put away one tenth of your earnings.
(b) To give all your money to your father.
(c) To leave town.
(d) To spend everything you have.

13. What does the person in #27 want from Arkad?
(a) Money.
(b) A copy of a particular law.
(c) A letter from his friend.
(d) Advice.

14. What does Arkad present to the councilmen?
(a) The Five Ways of Gold.
(b) A budget.
(c) Money.
(d) The Seven Cures for a Lean Purse

15. What does Arkad teach the men?
(a) How to make chariots
(b) Alchemy
(c) How to accure wealth
(d) How to fashion gold

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Syrian man say to the group?

2. When the man tells a story of a missed business venture, who was the person who gave him the initial advice?

3. Where is the richest nation in the world?

4. Where does Arkad say that good luck does not frequent?

5. What does Nomasir resolve to do?

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