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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the dervishes renounce in "The Arab in Persia"?
(a) Riches.
(b) Pride.
(c) God.
(d) The world.

2. How did Majnoun disguise himself to approach the campground?
(a) In a peasant's robe.
(b) In a sheepskin.
(c) As a mystic.
(d) As a beggar.

3. Sheikh Kherghan said that his misery and pain lie __________.
(a) In his soul.
(b) In his stomach.
(c) In his body.
(d) In his heart.

4. What way did pilgrims take when they entered the Valley of Insight into Mystery?
(a) The path less trodden.
(b) The low path.
(c) All different ways.
(d) The high path.

5. According to the peasant in the desert ("Sheikh Mahna and the Peasant"), what hides the musk of the hunted deer?
(a) The mixture of the blooms.
(b) The scent of other animals.
(c) Blood.
(d) Sweet air.

6. What did the living people begin to do as death filled the roads during the Egyptian famine?
(a) Commit suicide.
(b) Rob the king's vaults.
(c) Cannibalize.
(d) Leave the town.

7. What did the "ancient crone" use to place a bid on Jacob?
(a) The deed to her land.
(b) One rooster.
(c) Her gold and jewels.
(d) Twisted threads.

8. What was the metaphor based upon the following tenet: "When my exchequer has no love to give"?
(a) Blood-money.
(b) Sin.
(c) Hate.
(d) Life.

9. What quote, from the Koran, did the voice from heaven remind the "faithless Moslem" about?
(a) "Fulfill your promises."
(b) "Did we not spread the earth like a bed and raise the mountains like pillars?"
(c) "Every soul shall taste death."
(d) "Surely there are signs in this for thinking men."

10. What did the "narrator" (the hoopoe) compare the beggar to in the story "The Beggar Who Fell in Love with Ayaz"?
(a) A donkey.
(b) An ant.
(c) A gnat.
(d) A polo-ball.

11. What was the asking price for Jacob?
(a) Ten camels.
(b) Four horses.
(c) Thirty-five sheep.
(d) Five tubs of musk.

12. What animal was the peasant leading when Sheikh Mahna came across him in the desert?
(a) A donkey.
(b) A camel.
(c) A horse.
(d) A cow.

13. What kind of animal blood did Joseph's brothers stain his cloak with when they threw him in the well?
(a) Cow.
(b) Dog.
(c) Bear.
(d) Wolf.

14. Who did the judge say must pay for the murdered animal that the rich neighbor lent to the poor man, given the poor man could not pay for the animal (it died while he was borrowing it)?
(a) The rich man would have to absorb the loss.
(b) God.
(c) The judge offerd to pay.
(d) The mother of the poor man.

15. What object did Joseph strike when he addressed his brothers about selling him into slavery?
(a) A throne.
(b) A bowl.
(c) A staff.
(d) A bell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the scholar's task that describes the process of determining the actions/sayings of the Prophet Mohammad to be genuine?

2. What did the "good-hearted monarch" give to his favorite slave?

3. What did the man who swept the streets, whom received the trinket from Shah Mahmoud, say he would do until the day he died?

4. In the Valley of Love, what did the falcons search for as they flew?

5. Why did the lover want to kill his beloved?

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