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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 does everyone stand alone in?
(a) The world
(b) God's knowledge
(c) The shadow of their abilities
(d) The community

2. Reason confines, while unattended passion ________.
(a) Simmers.
(b) Scorches.
(c) Dies.
(d) Destroys.

3. Who is the messenger of love for the flower?
(a) The sun
(b) The bee
(c) The water
(d) The grower

4. Who blesses the day?
(a) Almitra
(b) An elder
(c) The people
(d) A woman

5. What is self-chosen, according to Almustafa?
(a) The good things that people have
(b) The land around them
(c) Much of one's pain
(d) The infidelity of one's marraige

Short Answer Questions

1. What must one accept in one's heart?

2. People want to direct the course of the spirit by hours and seasons, as though it were what?

3. What can yield treasure?

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

5. What is only good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does Almustafa say that one speaks?

2. What is the only purpose of friendship?

3. How does Almustafa define pain?

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

5. Much of one's talking does what, according to Almustafa?

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

7. How does Almustafa describe time?

8. What does Almustafa say that dying means?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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