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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Conference of the Birds, pgs. 166-213.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who dreamed that he was the guide to Bayazid and Tarmazi?
(a) A slave of Bayazid and Tarmazi.
(b) The son of Tarmazi.
(c) A master of the Way.
(d) The son of Bayazid.

3. To whom did the hoopoe compare the finch?
(a) God.
(b) Moses.
(c) Goliath.
(d) King Solomon.

4. What did the "ancient crone" use to place a bid on Jacob?
(a) One rooster.
(b) The deed to her land.
(c) Twisted threads.
(d) Her gold and jewels.

5. What price did Ibrahim Adham pay for poverty?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His kingdom.
(c) His son.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the hoopoe say must be empty for the heart to purify itself in the Valley of the Quest?

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

4. What was the "fruit " of love's great tree?

5. What would deprive the birds of everything in the Valley of the Quest?

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