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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. What is all deeds, reflection, wonder, and surprise springing in the soul?
(a) Religion
(b) Friendship
(c) Love
(d) Knowledge

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

3. What is remembered long after the vessel is gone?
(a) Wine.
(b) Oil.
(c) Water.
(d) Paint.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One can not speak of beauty unless __________ is the weaver of one's speech.

2. Who asks Almustafa about time?

3. Almustafa says he can only reveal that which lies ________ in the dawning of people's knowledge.

4. Almustafa likens the soul to a ____________.

5. Where does one's giant self reside?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why must one know pain, according to Almustafa?

3. When does Almustafa say that one speaks?

4. How does Almustafa describe evil? How does he define it?

5. What happens when one prays, according to Almustafa?

6. To what does Almustafa compare time?

7. What do people's hearts already know, according to Almustafa?

8. What can one person's vision unable to do, according to Almustafa?

9. When a teacher asks Almustafa about teaching, what does he say one can reveal?

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

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