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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when the Shiekh Sam'an drank wine?
(a) He broke his tie to the Simorgh.
(b) He lost his faith.
(c) He forgot about his path.
(d) He lost his true love.

2. What was the color of mourning in ancient Persia?
(a) Green.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) Purple.

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

4. What did the hoopoe tell the birds that the journey required?
(a) A lion's heart.
(b) A beggar's heart.
(c) A fool's heart.
(d) A follower's heart.

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

6. While the hoopoe was telling the birds about the Way, he said he was blessed by_______________.
(a) God.
(b) King Solomon.
(c) Abraham.
(d) David.

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

8. Why did the nightingale claim that he could not go on the journey to find the Simorgh?
(a) Fear.
(b) Love.
(c) Hate.
(d) Pride.

9. Where did God tell Gabriel to find the one who had cast away the Self and had a pure heart?
(a) The mountains.
(b) Rome.
(c) Italy.
(d) In Eden.

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

11. According to the hoopoe's story about the spider, how did the spider spend his days?
(a) In self-communing dreams.
(b) In waking dreams.
(c) In constant hunger.
(d) In constant fear.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did the heron say that he loved and, therefore, could not go on the journey to find the Simorgh?

2. From where did the hoopoe quote the following: "You cannot gain salvation while the things you love remain."

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

4. In what color was the parrot clothed?

5. Whose head did Abraham try to cut off?

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