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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. How many birds gathered around the Hoopoe after he was chosen leader for the journey?
(a) One hundred thousand.
(b) Ten thousand.
(c) One million.
(d) Every bird on earth.

2. What did the hoopoe say the quest was for?
(a) Hope.
(b) Love.
(c) Power.
(d) Truth.

3. What did the "cowardly bird" say would happen the first time the birds stopped for a rest during the journey?
(a) He would turn around.
(b) He would give up.
(c) He would never stop.
(d) He would drop dead.

4. According to the "troubled fool," what entered Nimrod's brain?
(a) An irrational thought.
(b) A worm.
(c) A demon.
(d) A gnat.

5. Why did the nightingale claim that he could not go on the journey to find the Simorgh?
(a) Pride.
(b) Love.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Abbasseh say that the Self must choose between?

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

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

4. Where was the Shebli found when no one in Baghdad could guess where he was?

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

(see the answer key)

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