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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Conference of the Birds, pgs. 166-213.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was the slave who was given a splendid robe hung?
(a) He sold the robe.
(b) He had no dignity.
(c) He burned the robe.
(d) He lost the robe.

2. What did the man, who refused to drink, refuse to drink?
(a) Water.
(b) Wine.
(c) Ale.
(d) Sweet sherbet.

3. According to the hoopoe's story about the spider, how did the spider spend his days?
(a) In self-communing dreams.
(b) In waking dreams.
(c) In constant fear.
(d) In constant hunger.

4. According to the beggar in "The Beggar Who Fell in Love with Ayaz," what would make a beggar an equal to the court?
(a) Fate.
(b) Love.
(c) Pride.
(d) Hope.

5. Where does one have to enter to have a "wave of indecision flood" them?
(a) Indecision's prairie.
(b) Truth's valley.
(c) Wisdom's sea.
(d) Fear's peak.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many valleys did the birds have to cross to find the Simorgh?

2. What happened when Truth's sunlight cleared the air in the Valley of Insight into Mystery?

3. What did the dervishes renounce in "The Arab in Persia"?

4. What did the "fool of God" claim would happen to those whose souls did not have feathers?

5. What did the "narrator" (the hoopoe) compare the beggar to in the story "The Beggar Who Fell in Love with Ayaz"?

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