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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. Striving for gain is like what?
(a) A new relationship.
(b) A worldwide illness.
(c) An uphill battle.
(d) A root clinging to the earth.

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

3. Tomorrow is ________ dream.
(a) A current
(b) A lost
(c) Today's
(d) Yesterday's

4. Who asks Almustafa about death?
(a) The caretaker
(b) Almitra
(c) An elderly man
(d) The mason

5. Who bids Almustafa to leave?
(a) The wind.
(b) The people.
(c) God.
(d) The earth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who should direct the lips and tongue to speak the truth of the heart?

3. What does everyone stand alone in?

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

5. Who asks Almustafa about pleasure?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. To what does Almustafa compare time?

4. Who can those desiring to learn about pleasure take a lesson from, aside from Almustafa?

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

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

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

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

9. How does Almustafa describe friendship when a youth asks?

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

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