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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. Who is the person to ask Almustafa about crime and punishment?
(a) A judge
(b) An innkeeper
(c) A merchant
(d) A lawyer

2. The house is one's larger body and never without ____________.
(a) Family
(b) Dreams
(c) Answers
(d) Peace

3. Marriage should leave what?
(a) Peace
(b) Solitude
(c) Personal space
(d) Longing

4. Who asks Almustafa about houses?
(a) A singer
(b) A poet
(c) A merchant
(d) A mason

5. Those who give with pain are ____________ in that pain.
(a) Baptized.
(b) Cleansed.
(c) Drowned.
(d) Suffocated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can not be forced on the innocent or lifted from the guilty?

2. Joy is _______ unmasked.

3. Recipients should assume no weight of ____________, which is heavy on both, but rather soar alongside the giver.

4. Who should leave the marketplace empty handed?

5. What does Almitra want Almustafa to speak of first?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Almustafa describe what people call freedom?

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

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

4. What other things does love do, according to Almustafa?

5. No matter how grand one's house is, what does Almustafa say the owner should do?

6. What does Almustafa use as examples of personal space in relation to love?

7. Where do the souls of children dwell, according to Almustafa?

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

9. 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?

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

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