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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. What did the hoopoe say was the lure of the falcon?
(a) Simorgh.
(b) Love.
(c) The hoopoe.
(d) God.

2. What was the hoopoe describing when he stated the following: "Your palace is a kennel with the rest...is your dungeon after death"?
(a) Fear.
(b) Hell.
(c) Pride.
(d) Heaven.

3. What did the "cowardly bird" claim was a "useless sacrifice"?
(a) Giving up his wealth.
(b) Giving up his home.
(c) The deaths of many birds on the journey.
(d) Leaving his family.

4. Right before leaving on their journey, what did the birds do?
(a) Went to get provisions.
(b) Sang a song.
(c) Prayed.
(d) Chose a leader.

5. Where was the Shebli found when no one in Baghdad could guess where he was?
(a) In a tree.
(b) In a field overgrown with wild flowers.
(c) Near the river by the caves.
(d) A sexual service of men and boys establishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did the hoopoe compare the nightingale?

2. In the story of the "Two Foxes," where did one fox say that he would meet up with the other after parting?

3. Whom did the Shiekh Sam'an see at dawn when he smelled the "musk-diffusing breeze"?

4. What did the duck claim to be as part of his excuse as to why he could not go on the journey to find the Simorgh?

5. After the miser's death, he appeared to his son as __________.

(see the answer key)

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