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

2. According to Almustafa, what does wronging others do?
(a) Nothing
(b) Creates a need for punishment
(c) Wrongs oneself
(d) Establishes that all people are evil

3. Who does Almustafa envy as they enjoy peace and freedom?
(a) The politicians
(b) The poets
(c) The animals
(d) The mariners

4. Who asks Almustafa about children?
(a) A child
(b) A maiden
(c) A nursing mother
(d) A new father

5. Who asks Almustafa about clothes?
(a) A poet
(b) A weaver
(c) A mason
(d) An innkeeper

Short Answer Questions

1. Almustafa says that work helps one keep pace with the _________ of the earth.

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

3. Marriage should never what?

4. People are free when they can rise above their _________________.

5. Whose part in a wife's infidelity should be weighed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Almustafa describe what people call freedom?

2. What do people delight in, according to Almustafa, in relation to laws?

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

4. What does Almustafa say to Almitra about marriage?

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. Who does Almustafa say has useful gifts to sell?

7. What does Almustafa have to say about children in relation to their parents?

8. What else should be weighed in a wife's infidelity?

9. What does Almustafa declare about love?

10. What does love seek of the person who feels love?

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