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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. Beauty is not a need, but a what?
(a) A gift
(b) A privilege
(c) An ecstasy
(d) A wonder

2. The soul walks upon all paths, but not on a _______.
(a) Cliff
(b) Plain
(c) Mountain
(d) Line

3. What can friends be and still share their thoughts, desires, expectations and joy?
(a) Silent
(b) Mean
(c) Gone
(d) Tired

4. Prayer is the expansion of one's self into the _________.
(a) Clouds.
(b) Nothingness.
(c) Living ether.
(d) Ears of spirits.

5. Almustafa says that pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses what?
(a) One's prosperity.
(b) One's happiness.
(c) One's understanding.
(d) One's joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who knows people's needs before they do?

2. Who must not limp before the lame?

3. What is all deeds, reflection, wonder, and surprise springing in the soul?

4. Where can people seek death's secret?

5. Who claims to have heard beauty shouting in the mountains with the sounds of wild beasts?

Short Essay Questions

1. When can one speak of beauty, according to Almustafa?

2. What can happen when one goes digging for roots, according to Almustafa?

3. When can people know death's secret, according to Almustafa?

4. To what does Almustafa compare time?

5. Where does one's giant self lie, according to Almustafa?

6. What do the tired and the weary say about beauty?

7. While Almustafa compares the soul to a battlefield, what does he wish his role in this conflict to be?

8. How should judgment and appetite be treated, according to Almustafa?

9. How does Almustafa describe religion?

10. Why should all people be taken in, according to Almustafa?

(see the answer keys)

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