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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Conference of the Birds, pgs. 75-120.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many birds gathered around the Hoopoe after he was chosen leader for the journey?
(a) One hundred thousand.
(b) One million.
(c) Every bird on earth.
(d) Ten thousand.

2. Who was Uzza?
(a) A man struck down by God for sinning.
(b) Another name for the Self.
(c) An Islamic god of air.
(d) A goddess in pre-Islamic Arabia.

3. What did a Sufi try to buy for nothing in Baghdad?
(a) Bread.
(b) Milk.
(c) Flour.
(d) Honey.

4. What did Malek Dinar claim that he had done after getting bread from God?
(a) Hoarded the bread.
(b) Carried out the Evil One's commands.
(c) Fed the poor.
(d) Fed the birds.

5. On what mountain peak did the Simorgh live?
(a) Zaw.
(b) Bine.
(c) Kaf.
(d) Pike.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the hoopoe say forced a "vicious sinner to repent"?

2. According to the hoopoe, how must man enter and leave the world?

3. What did the hoopoe have on his head?

4. According to the story "A Sinner Enters Heaven, who is the only one that can show the end of Wisdom?

5. In what color was the parrot clothed?

(see the answer key)

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