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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 the "sad, old woman" ask Mahna's shiekh to teach her how to do?
(a) Pray.
(b) Read.
(c) Write.
(d) Sing.

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

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

4. Where does one have to enter to have a "wave of indecision flood" them?
(a) Truth's valley.
(b) Indecision's prairie.
(c) Wisdom's sea.
(d) Fear's peak.

5. Shiekh Sam'an's people left for __________.
(a) The caves of David.
(b) Mecca.
(c) Rau.
(d) The mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Lord say clothed the simpleton who walked naked through the crowd?

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

3. The gravedigger said ________ watched him dig graves?

4. What did the prisoners hang as decorations to welcome their king back to the capital?

5. 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?

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