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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Conference of the Birds, pgs. 213-229.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After the miser's death, he appeared to his son as __________.
(a) A donkey.
(b) A mouse.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A dog.

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

4. The gravedigger said ________ watched him dig graves?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Fear.
(c) Pride.
(d) Self.

5. What happened when the Shiekh Sam'an drank wine?
(a) He lost his faith.
(b) He lost his true love.
(c) He forgot about his path.
(d) He broke his tie to the Simorgh.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was wrong with the fruit that the "good-hearted monarch" gave to his favorite slave?

4. What did the "cowardly bird" claim was a "useless sacrifice"?

5. What "thing" contains an ultimate desire for fire?

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