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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 King Sabur release the Persian from in the story of The Ebony Horse?
(a) An underwater cave.
(b) Jail.
(c) A tower.
(d) A curse.

2. To whom do angry customers complain when Abu Sir cheats them?
(a) Allah.
(b) The Caliph.
(c) The Kazi.
(d) The King.

3. In the story The Angel of Death With The Proud King And The Devout Man, a king full of ______ is stopped by a man in rags.
(a) Embarrassment.
(b) Envy.
(c) Pride.
(d) Food.

4. What does the Greek man give King Sabur in the story of The Ebony Horse?
(a) A copper bowl.
(b) A gold bowl.
(c) A brick bowl.
(d) A silver bowl.

5. How do the two brothers serve as king?
(a) They alternate every week.
(b) They alternate every day.
(c) They cover each other when one is travelling.
(d) The alternate every year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Maghribi wizard pose as in Alaeddin: Or, The Wonderful Lamp?

2. In the story of How Abu Hasan Broke Wind, Abu Hasan holds a great celebration in the City of ______ of Al-Yaman.

3. In the story The City of Brass, how many people are in Emir Musa's traveling party to where the cucurbites are found?

4. For how long does Abu Kir sit around and loaf in Alexandria?

5. What sweet does Fatimah demand her husband bring home one day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is justice served through the story of Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves?

2. How does Abu-al Hasan make his way into the upper echelons of the Caliph's palace in The Sleeper And The Waker?

3. What goal in Alaedddin: Or, The Wonderful Lamp may Shahrazad been trying to achieve through this story to the king?

4. Consider the saying "One cannot fully escape the past." How is this saying proven in Ma'aruf The Cobbler And His Wife Fatimah?

5. What lesson does Shahrazad teach the king through her story in Sindbad The Seaman And Sindbad The Lands?

6. In the Conclusion, King Shahryar's legacy began bloody and ended in peace and prosperity thanks to the gifted storyteller, Shahrazad. Through her stories and her love she changes the heart of the king and her stories live on through the generations. What kind of a reminder can this conclusion offer to humanity on the whole?

7. In Khalifah The Fisherman of Baghdad, the reader witnesses the Caliph dispense mercy and cruelty with the whim of someone raised in a position of such absolute power that it distances him from the suffering of the common people, much like the fisherman Khalifah. How could this part of the story relate to Shahrazad's goal of changing the king's ways?

8. What is the relationship between the Allah and the Caliph in regards to which has the most power in Khalifah The Fisherman of Baghdad?

9. In what way could this be a sort of cautionary tale from Shahrazad to the king in The Lady And Her Five Suitors?

10. What moral does Shahrazad imply through her story in the story Julnar The Sea-Born And Her Son King Badr Basim of Persia?

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