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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Conference of the Birds, pgs. 213-229.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the hoopoe say the quest was for?
(a) Love.
(b) Hope.
(c) Power.
(d) Truth.

2. The bird that burned with aspiration said his soul was devoured by_________.
(a) Fear.
(b) Insatiate zeal.
(c) Nothingness.
(d) Hate.

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

4. What quote, from the Koran, did the voice from heaven remind the "faithless Moslem" about?
(a) "Did we not spread the earth like a bed and raise the mountains like pillars?"
(b) "Every soul shall taste death."
(c) "Fulfill your promises."
(d) "Surely there are signs in this for thinking men."

5. What was the second test of the journey to find the Simorgh?
(a) Poverty's bleakness.
(b) Mystery's dry plains.
(c) Unity's ice-covered mountains.
(d) Love's wide valley.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Shiekh Noughani ask for from God after seven days had passed during his trip to Neishaspour?

3. What did the hoopoe have on his head?

4. What is considered a "stock metaphor in Persian verse for the writing of poetry"?

5. For whom did the hoopoe work as a secret message deliverer?

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