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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Almustafa say that clothing conceals?
(a) Beauty
(b) Flesh
(c) Modesty
(d) Identity

2. Who should leave the marketplace empty handed?
(a) No one
(b) The poor
(c) Children
(d) Everyone

3. What should one meditate on?
(a) Peace.
(b) Completeness.
(c) Love's ecstasy.
(d) Riches.

4. Who is born together?
(a) Babies
(b) Friends
(c) People
(d) Animals

5. Who is the person that asks about work?
(a) An innkeeper
(b) A young man
(c) A ploughman
(d) A poet

6. While the drum and lyre can be silenced, what can not be silenced?
(a) People
(b) Skylarks
(c) The prophet
(d) Ignorance

7. Man and apple should rejoice in all __________.
(a) Meals.
(b) Seasons.
(c) Flavors.
(d) Combinations.

8. What happens when sorrow carves deep into one's being?
(a) The person is doing something wrong.
(b) The pain is unbearable.
(c) More joy can be contained.
(d) The world is a better place.

9. What does Almustafa describe as a yoke and a handcuff?
(a) Government
(b) Sanity
(c) Freedom
(d) Laws

10. Darkness creates a blind urge for what?
(a) Light
(b) Peace
(c) Nothing
(d) Knowledge

11. Where should people strive to be?
(a) In the heart of God.
(b) In a nice home.
(c) In the favor of friends.
(d) In a loving relationship.

12. Love neither _______ nor ________.
(a) Gives, takes
(b) Believes, disagrees
(c) Comes, goes
(d) Answers, asks

13. The victim of killing is purer than _________.
(a) God
(b) Man
(c) Animal
(d) Royalty

14. Almustafa says he can speak only of what?
(a) Only of what he has learned
(b) What the politicians say he can speak of
(c) What they already heard from Almitra
(d) What moves within their souls

15. When are people balanced between joy and sorrow?
(a) Only when happy
(b) Only when married
(c) Only when dead
(d) Only when empty

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the earth delight in?

2. What keeps Almustafa from speaking at first?

3. Everything moves within one's ___________.

4. Killing should be an act of _________.

5. Despots can not be dethroned without destroying the _______ that people erect within themselves.

(see the answer keys)

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