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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the hoopoe, how must man enter and leave the world?
(a) Sinless.
(b) Filled with love.
(c) Homeless.
(d) Spiritless.

3. After the miser's death, he appeared to his son as __________.
(a) A dog.
(b) A donkey.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A mouse.

4. According to the "troubled fool," what entered Nimrod's brain?
(a) An irrational thought.
(b) A gnat.
(c) A worm.
(d) A demon.

5. What did the "cowardly bird" claim was a "useless sacrifice"?
(a) The deaths of many birds on the journey.
(b) Giving up his home.
(c) Giving up his wealth.
(d) Leaving his family.

6. What did Abbasseh say that the Self must choose between?
(a) Pride and Humility.
(b) Love and Hate.
(c) Faith and hell.
(d) Poverty and Riches.

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

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

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

10. What was the hoopoe describing when he stated the following: "Your palace is a kennel with the rest...is your dungeon after death"?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Hell.
(c) Fear.
(d) Pride.

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

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

13. From where did the hoopoe quote the following: "You cannot gain salvation while the things you love remain."
(a) Moses' writings.
(b) The writings of the Simorah.
(c) Bible.
(d) Koran.

14. Whom did the heron say that he loved and, therefore, could not go on the journey to find the Simorgh?
(a) His nest.
(b) His partner.
(c) The sea.
(d) His homeland.

15. Who was Uzza?
(a) An Islamic god of air.
(b) A goddess in pre-Islamic Arabia.
(c) A man struck down by God for sinning.
(d) Another name for the Self.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the hoopoe's story about the spider, how did the spider spend his days?

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

3. Where did God tell Gabriel to find the one who had cast away the Self and had a pure heart?

4. What did the hoopoe wear on his breast?

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

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