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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. A couple's children are not ________.
(a) A way to redemption.
(b) A reason to be married.
(c) Their own.
(d) A smart addition to a family.

2. Give now, rather than leaving [your money] to __________ to give.
(a) Beggars.
(b) Strangers.
(c) Heirs.
(d) Bankers.

3. Where is this story located?
(a) Omata
(b) Orphalese
(c) Orzona
(d) Oliviona

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

5. Despots can not be dethroned without destroying the _______ that people erect within themselves.
(a) Openness
(b) Stubborness
(c) Throne
(d) Ignorance

Short Answer Questions

1. What does love NOT do?

2. What can Almustafa not speak to the Orphalese people?

3. Children come not from a couple, but _________.

4. While the drum and lyre can be silenced, what can not be silenced?

5. Marriage should never what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Almustafa say to Almitra about marriage?

2. What is it good to do, in relation to the topic of giving?

3. What does work help one to do, according to Almustafa?

4. Who is the chosen and the beloved who is giving the lessons throughout The Prophet?

5. It is better not to seek only peace and pleasure in love, but what should one do to open one's self up to love?

6. Why do people guard their possessions, according to Almustafa?

7. What does Almustafa say in the debate between whether joy or sorrow is greater?

8. To those who view life as a rock, what does Almustafa say?

9. How does Almustafa describe what people call freedom?

10. What does Almustafa say he has observed when the orator asks about freedom?

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