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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people's hearts know in silence?
(a) The reason for their existence
(b) The secrets of day and night
(c) The right way to act
(d) The answers to every question

2. Who asks Almustafa about teaching?
(a) A mother
(b) A mason
(c) A child
(d) A teacher

3. Striving for gain is like what?
(a) An uphill battle.
(b) A worldwide illness.
(c) A root clinging to the earth.
(d) A new relationship.

4. When one parts from a friend, there should be no _______.
(a) Relief.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Grief.
(d) Pain.

5. Who must be alone in their knowledge of God and the earth?
(a) Masons
(b) Mothers
(c) Everyone
(d) Teachers

6. What can not be separated from actions or belief from occupations?
(a) Study
(b) Experience
(c) Time
(d) Faith

7. Yesterday is today's _________.
(a) Memory.
(b) Decision.
(c) Regret.
(d) Gift.

8. When does one speak, according to Almustafa?
(a) When it is their turn.
(b) When one has a good idea.
(c) When one feels the need to disagree.
(d) When one ceases to be at peace with one's thoughts.

9. Who asks Almustafa about good and evil?
(a) A wise guru
(b) A city elder
(c) A judge
(d) A child

10. Who asks Almustafa about friendship?
(a) A priest
(b) A youth
(c) A couple
(d) A grown man

11. People should pray when ____________.
(a) Life is teaching them something.
(b) Life is joyful and abundant.
(c) Life is too much.
(d) Life is painful.

12. Judgment and appetite should be treated as what in one's home?
(a) Guests.
(b) Saints.
(c) Unwelcomed family members.
(d) Animals.

13. Who asks Almustafa about death?
(a) The caretaker
(b) Almitra
(c) The mason
(d) An elderly man

14. Who asks Almustafa about pleasure?
(a) A poet
(b) A mason
(c) A merchant
(d) A hermit

15. Almustafa says that people should not pray only in ________ and ________.
(a) Distress, need.
(b) Peace, happiness.
(c) Hunger, longing.
(d) Ignorance, lies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only purpose of friendship?

2. What is measureless and immeasurable?

3. The physician's hand may be heavy and hard, but the tender hand of the ________ guides it.

4. Beauty is not a need, but a what?

5. Where does one find diversion sometimes?

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