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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 million.
(b) Every bird on earth.
(c) Ten thousand.
(d) One hundred thousand.

2. What did Abbasseh say that the Self must choose between?
(a) Poverty and Riches.
(b) Faith and hell.
(c) Love and Hate.
(d) Pride and Humility.

3. On what mountain peak did the Simorgh live?
(a) Bine.
(b) Kaf.
(c) Pike.
(d) Zaw.

4. Why is the Way lifeless-according to the hoopoe?
(a) To insure that the birds create their own path.
(b) To allow those on the journey to choose their own path.
(c) To glorify the king.
(d) To make the journey as hard as possible.

5. Where did the hawk claim to perch daily?
(a) At the right hand of God.
(b) On the branch of the olive tree.
(c) On the right side of the cross.
(d) On the soverign's hand.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the color of mourning in ancient Persia?

3. What did the hoopoe tell the birds that the journey required?

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. Where did God tell Gabriel to find the one who had cast away the Self and had a pure heart?

(see the answer key)

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