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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did God tell Shiekh Noughani to do in Neishaspour to find a grain of gold?
(a) Clean the horse stalls.
(b) Follow the white horse of the king.
(c) Find the man in red and inquire about a room.
(d) Sweep the main square.

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

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

4. What did the turtle-dove wear around his neck?
(a) A circle of light.
(b) A mark of Cain.
(c) A ring of loyalty.
(d) All the colors of the rainbow.

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

6. According the the Shiekh Sam'an, what did the Self ignore?
(a) The power of Pride.
(b) The color of Truth.
(c) The history of the Fear.
(d) The secrets of the Way.

7. Whom did the woodcutter say that God helps?
(a) Only those whom have seen the light of God.
(b) All sinners.
(c) Only those who do not sin.
(d) Only those whom have accepted him.

8. Whom did the Shiekh Sam'an see at dawn when he smelled the "musk-diffusing breeze"?
(a) Pride.
(b) The Prophet.
(c) The Muse.
(d) Hate.

9. What did a Sufi try to buy for nothing in Baghdad?
(a) Flour.
(b) Milk.
(c) Bread.
(d) Honey.

10. What leader claimed that he was the lord to his people and the people ignored his claims?
(a) King Solomon.
(b) Alexander the Great.
(c) King David.
(d) King Saul.

11. What advice did the hoopoe give to the goldfinch about earthly claims?
(a) Remember that you will leave them in death.
(b) Never claim them as your own.
(c) Turn your back on them.
(d) Shut your eyes to them.

12. What did Malek Dinar claim that he had done after getting bread from God?
(a) Carried out the Evil One's commands.
(b) Fed the poor.
(c) Hoarded the bread.
(d) Fed the birds.

13. How did the king honor the fisherboy's friendship?
(a) He gave him the throne.
(b) He made him an advisor.
(c) He made him a knight.
(d) He bought him a home.

14. In what color was the parrot clothed?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

15. According to the hoopoe, what does one need to destroy to be able to approach the light?
(a) Pride.
(b) Unworthiness.
(c) The Self.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What happened when the Shiekh Sam'an drank wine?

3. Right before leaving on their journey, what did the birds do?

4. Where does one have to enter to have a "wave of indecision flood" them?

5. According to the story "A Sinner Enters Heaven, who is the only one that can show the end of Wisdom?

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