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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Conference of the Birds, pgs. 120-166.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did everyone refuse to do to Ahmad Hanbal?
(a) Honor him.
(b) Praise him.
(c) Criticize him.
(d) Be kind to him.

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

3. Who did Ahmad Hanbal consult when he felt that his mind was inadequate to answer a question?
(a) A beggar.
(b) An owl.
(c) God.
(d) His mystic.

4. Where did God tell Gabriel to find the one who had cast away the Self and had a pure heart?
(a) The mountains.
(b) Italy.
(c) In Eden.
(d) Rome.

5. 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) The judge offerd to pay.
(c) God.
(d) The mother of the poor man.

Short Answer Questions

1. According the the Shiekh Sam'an, what did the Self ignore?

2. To whom did the hoopoe compare the nightingale?

3. How did the king honor the fisherboy's friendship?

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

5. Why was the slave who was given a splendid robe hung?

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