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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 was on the clay tablets?
(a) The Five Laws of Gold
(b) Instructions for running a business.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Directions to the next town.

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

3. What is the first step of his plan?
(a) Abolish money.
(b) Tax the rich.
(c) Make more money.
(d) Keep one tenth of your earnings for yourself.

4. Who is the friend of the answer to #2?
(a) Arkad
(b) Algamish
(c) Arad
(d) Kobbi

5. How is Bansir's work described?
(a) Highly prized
(b) Useless
(c) Slow
(d) Boring

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the story begin?

2. About what does Bansir worry?

3. What does the person in #27 offer in exchange for the favor in #29?

4. What do Bansir and Kobbi wonder?

5. Who does Arkad meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Arkad challenge the men to think of when they ask about luck?

2. What conclusion do the men come to after discussing how many men have amassed great wealth at the gaming tables?

3. What is the first cure for a lean purse that was also shared in chapter two?

4. What does Arkad tell the men about luck at the end of the chapter?

5. What stories do the men share in relation to business transactions?

6. What is Debasir eating as he teaches his companion?

7. Who is Bansir's friend who shares his view of wealth in relation to the work they do?

8. What story does this leader share with the caravan and with the grandson?

9. What does Arkad do in relation to this Babylonian tradition?

10. What does this person in #47 teach Dabasir?

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