Study Guide Questions Assignment 6

Before leaving the oasis, where does the boy go?

What does the desert come to mean for Fatima?

How do the boy and the alchemist find food in the desert?

Why is the boy disappointed when the alchemist writes in the sand what is inscribed on the Emerald Tablet?

What is it that the alchemist tells the boy that he has to listen to?

According to the alchemist, what is worse than suffering?

What is one thing that, according to the alchemist, the boy still needs to know?

What do the armed tribesmen find in the alchemist's bag?

Why don't the tribesmen take what is in the alchemist's bag?

After they are captured by a tribe, what does the alchemist claim that the boy is able to do?