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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why is the Way lifeless-according to the hoopoe?
(a) To make the journey as hard as possible.
(b) To glorify the king.
(c) To allow those on the journey to choose their own path.
(d) To insure that the birds create their own path.

4. What did the hoopoe say was the lure of the falcon?
(a) God.
(b) The hoopoe.
(c) Love.
(d) Simorgh.

5. What was the "fruit " of love's great tree?
(a) Honor.
(b) Washed sins.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Poverty.

6. What did the hoopoe wear on his breast?
(a) A cross.
(b) The Spirit's Way.
(c) A crown of thorns.
(d) A nail.

7. What does the following mean? "But hide a hundred idols with your cloak; If you're a eunuch underneath, don't dress In clothes of high heroic manliness."
(a) Hide who you really are.
(b) Pretending is okay with God.
(c) If you are brave, dress brave.
(d) Be true to yourself.

8. What is the real reason that the nightingale said he could not go on the journey to find the Simorgh?
(a) He is too arrogant.
(b) He is too rich.
(c) He is to proud.
(d) He is too weak.

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

10. Where did the hawk claim to perch daily?
(a) On the soverign's hand.
(b) On the right side of the cross.
(c) On the branch of the olive tree.
(d) At the right hand of God.

11. Whom did the hoopoe say the peacock had to crush?
(a) The snake.
(b) Pride.
(c) The grape.
(d) The lizard.

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

13. How many years did it take for Rabe'eh to travel to Mecca?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Seven.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Forty.

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

15. Where did the finch say that he would seek his loved one at?
(a) The sky.
(b) A cave.
(c) A tree.
(d) A well.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the hoopoe, how must man enter and leave the world?

2. On what mountain peak did the Simorgh live?

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

4. What did God tell Shiekh Noughani to do in Neishaspour to find a grain of gold?

5. Where was the Shebli found when no one in Baghdad could guess where he was?

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