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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who asks Almustafa about buying and selling?
(a) An innkeeper
(b) A man
(c) A young sailor
(d) A merchant

2. Parents may give children their love, but not their __________.
(a) Silence.
(b) Money.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Thoughts.

3. Children's souls dwell in the house of _______________.
(a) Yesterday.
(b) Tomorrow.
(c) The future.
(d) Today.

4. The victim of killing is purer than _________.
(a) God
(b) Man
(c) Royalty
(d) Animal

5. Work is _______ made visible.
(a) Gratitude
(b) Love
(c) Calm
(d) Life

6. What does Almitra want Almustafa to speak of first?
(a) Love
(b) Work
(c) Friendship
(d) Marriage

7. Who often shares guilt with their attackers?
(a) Victims
(b) Lawyers
(c) Common people
(d) Judges

8. Love neither ________ nor is __________.
(a) Arrives, late
(b) Becomes, going to become
(c) Cautions, careful
(d) Possesses, possessed.

9. Love seeks only to _______ itself.
(a) Fulfill
(b) Become
(c) Redeem
(d) Improve

10. Who is the person to ask Almustafa about crime and punishment?
(a) An innkeeper
(b) A judge
(c) A lawyer
(d) A merchant

11. People are suspended on _________ between joy and sorrow.
(a) Scales
(b) Trees
(c) Mountains
(d) Statues

12. When are people balanced between joy and sorrow?
(a) Only when happy
(b) Only when empty
(c) Only when married
(d) Only when dead

13. Almustafa says the people will not want, provided they know how to _____________.
(a) Make more money
(b) Share with others
(c) Enjoy what they own
(d) Fill their hands

14. When one eats an apple, what lives in his body?
(a) A tree.
(b) A core.
(c) A longing.
(d) Seeds.

15. Almustafa declares that joy and sorrow are _____________.
(a) Inseparable.
(b) Spiritual necessities.
(c) Complete opposites.
(d) A part of the process.

Short Answer Questions

1. Love seeks only to rest at what time of the day?

2. Where is this story located?

3. According to Almustafa, what does wronging others do?

4. Who begs Almustafa to remain?

5. Marriage should give one's heart into the _______________.

(see the answer keys)

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