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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 does Bismillah mean?
(a) Amen.
(b) Hope.
(c) In the name of God.
(d) Holy one.

2. According to the story "A Sinner Enters Heaven, who is the only one that can show the end of Wisdom?
(a) Man.
(b) Life.
(c) Brain.
(d) God.

3. Who waited anxiously to see Joesph's face when he was up for sale as a slave?
(a) Egyptians.
(b) Sheikhs.
(c) Mystics.
(d) Romans.

4. For whom did the hoopoe work as a secret message deliverer?
(a) King Solomon.
(b) Abraham.
(c) David.
(d) God.

5. What metaphor did the hoopoe use to describe "Self's grown gross"?
(a) An elephant stuck in the mud.
(b) A rat swollen by gorging.
(c) A snake on ice.
(d) A dog that sleeps and feeds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did the woodcutter say that God helps?

2. What was the metaphor based upon the following tenet: "When my exchequer has no love to give"?

3. To what did the "fool of God" compare the world?

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

5. With whom, according to the hoopoe, would the pheasant reign?

(see the answer key)

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