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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 everyone refuse to do to Ahmad Hanbal?
(a) Praise him.
(b) Criticize him.
(c) Honor him.
(d) Be kind to him.

2. What was wrong with the fruit that the "good-hearted monarch" gave to his favorite slave?
(a) It was hard.
(b) It was rotten.
(c) It was bitter.
(d) It was worm-filled.

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 never stop.
(c) He would give up.
(d) He would drop dead.

4. To whom did the hoopoe compare the nightingale?
(a) Athaliah.
(b) David.
(c) Terpsichore.
(d) The choir of Levites.

5. Who did the hoopoe say was "twinned in unison" with God?
(a) The hawk.
(b) The Simorgh.
(c) Jesus.
(d) The hoopoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dreamed that he was the guide to Bayazid and Tarmazi?

2. What did the hoopoe say forced a "vicious sinner to repent"?

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

4. What did Malek Dinar claim that he had done after getting bread from God?

5. What did the hoopoe say that the partridge's jewels really were?

(see the answer key)

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