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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the beggar in "The Beggar Who Fell in Love with Ayaz," what would make a beggar an equal to the court?
(a) Pride.
(b) Hope.
(c) Love.
(d) Fate.

2. What did Sheikh Ghouri tell Prince Sanjar that he must leave behind if he chose to be the men's enemy?
(a) Life.
(b) Power.
(c) Love.
(d) Faith.

3. What price did Ibrahim Adham pay for poverty?
(a) His son.
(b) His daughter.
(c) His wife.
(d) His kingdom.

4. Why did the Indian King tell Mahmoud that he was crying?
(a) Thoughts of Judgement Day.
(b) His daughter had been sold illegally into slavery.
(c) His wife had died.
(d) His son had been taken prisoner.

5. What did the man who swept the streets, whom received the trinket from Shah Mahmoud, say he would do until the day he died?
(a) Eat heartily.
(b) Live a life of excess.
(c) Sift through dust heaps.
(d) Drink with kings.

6. What made the man from "A Lord Who Loved a Beer-Seller" long to die?
(a) His endless hunger.
(b) His failure to open his mouth.
(c) His failure to grasp food.
(d) His inability to smell the difference between food and waste.

7. What object did Joseph strike when he addressed his brothers about selling him into slavery?
(a) A bell.
(b) A staff.
(c) A throne.
(d) A bowl.

8. To whom did the hoopoe say the Way belonged?
(a) Everyone.
(b) Only the pure and strong.
(c) Only those whom accept the Simorgh.
(d) Only those who survive the journey.

9. In the Valley of Love, what did the falcons search for as they flew?
(a) Their "absent mate."
(b) Their "absent nest."
(c) Their "dead children."
(d) Their "mating grounds."

10. For travelers, what disappeared in the Valley of Detachment?
(a) All desires and trust in God.
(b) All hope and dreams for the future.
(c) All claims and lust for meaning.
(d) All faith and feeling.

11. What did the "good-hearted monarch" give to his favorite slave?
(a) A grape.
(b) A pear.
(c) A kiwi.
(d) An apple.

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

13. How did the bird who questioned the hoopoe about the length of the journey describe the other birds?
(a) As weak.
(b) As faithless.
(c) As blind.
(d) As ignorant.

14. The stone man was known as ___________.
(a) Respect.
(b) Fear.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Forgotten dreams.

15. What would deprive the birds of everything in the Valley of the Quest?
(a) Power.
(b) Hate.
(c) Misfortunes.
(d) Loss.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did the "fool of God" compare the world?

2. How did Majnoun disguise himself to approach the campground?

3. The peasant in the desert compared a man who does not seek to ___________.

4. Who waited anxiously to see Joesph's face when he was up for sale as a slave?

5. What did the dervishes renounce in "The Arab in Persia"?

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