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36 Cards in this Set
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Who is the story teller?
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Scheherazade, the Sassanid Queen
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Sche........
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How many nights are they told over?
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1001
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_____ Arabian Nights
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Why does she tell them?
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To extend her execution
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making something longer
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What are the stories a collection of?
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Ancient Indian and Persian Folk tales
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ancient....
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What century?
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8th century
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after Christ
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What was a cosmopolitan city?
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capital
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Tokyo
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Who was the Persian king?
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Sharyar
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Sha....
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What does he find out about his wife? What does he do?
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She and her lover plotted to kill him, so he had them executed.
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death
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What does he do each night with his new bride?
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Spends a night with her then gets executed the next day.
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what else would he do?
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What plan does the Persian queen have?
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To tell a story each night to the king, and leave him with a cliff hanger at dawn, so that he would delay her execution.
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story
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What is the king finally convinced of?
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All women are not plotting to kill him, and he marries Scheherazade
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no execution
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Where does the story take place?
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Persia
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modern day Turkey
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How many robbers did Ali Baba see?
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40
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Ali Baba and the __ thieves
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What did the chief robber say to the rock and what happened?
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Open Sesame. Door opened in the rocks
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seed.
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What did Ali Baba see when he went it?
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a lot of gold luxuries and stolen merchandise
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come on, whats in a cave filled with robbers?
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How did Cassim's wife find they had gold?
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she stuck cuet to the measure, and Ali Baba's wife did not see the piece of gold stuck on it.
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sticky stuff, measure
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What problem did Cassim have when he got into the cave?
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He couldn't remember the proper words
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open barley!
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What did the robbers do with Cassim?
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They killed him and cut him into four pieces and nailed him to the walls to scare off tresspassers.
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BANG!
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What did the slace girl, Morigiana, have done with the body?
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Paid an old cobbler to sew up the body
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needles
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Why were the thieves nervous?
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Some one had discovered their secret
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secret
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Where did the old cobbler, Baba Mustapha, lead the robber? What did the robber use chalk for?
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Cassim's house. Mark the walls so he and the other robbers could come back and kill the other guy.
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dead guy, marking
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What did Morgiana do to confuse the robbers?
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She marked three more houses
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more houses
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When the captain found the house, why did he want the men to bring 37 jars?
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So they could hide in them.
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hollow inside
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Why would the captain throw stones at the jar?
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To signal the robbers to come out.
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signal
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What did Morgiana discover when she went to the yard looking for a jar of oil?
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There were thieves inside the jar.
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hollow jars
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What did Morgiana do?
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Stifled and killed all the robbers by pouring boiled oil inside the hollow jars.
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death
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What did the captain discover when he threw pebbles at the jar?
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all his theives were dead
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burned oil
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What did Ali Baba do for Morgiana?
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owed her his life, granted her freedom
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life & liberty
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What did the captain plot to do?
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kill ali baba
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vengance
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What did the captain of theives and Ali Baba become
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friends
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bffl
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When the captain(Hassim) was at his house, what did Morgiana realise?
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he was the robber captain and carried around a dagger under his cloak
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uneasy
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While they were drinking, what did Morgiana do to entertain them?
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she was dancing
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belly _____
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How did she trick the captain?
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Dancing, and asked everyone for money, so when she came to him, he offered her money.
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playing
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At first, was Ali Baba angry?
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yes
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what do you think? your maid just killed your friend
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What did Ali Baba give Morgiana for a reward?
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Marriage to his son
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ding dong
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Was his family rich until the end of their lives?
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yes
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well what do you think if you had a cave filled with riches
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