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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the lover lay in exhaustion and sleep in "The Lover Who Slept"?
(a) From the broken heart he had.
(b) From the darkness he had battled.
(c) From the deep hunger he felt.
(d) From the tears he wept.

2. What did the living people begin to do as death filled the roads during the Egyptian famine?
(a) Leave the town.
(b) Rob the king's vaults.
(c) Cannibalize.
(d) Commit suicide.

3. Why was the slave who was given a splendid robe hung?
(a) He lost the robe.
(b) He burned the robe.
(c) He sold the robe.
(d) He had no dignity.

4. What did Shah Mahmoud throw onto the heap nearest to his mount?
(a) A bracelet.
(b) A coin.
(c) A ring.
(d) A ruby.

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

6. What did the "faithless Moslem" and the "faithful infidel" stop at points during their fighting to do?
(a) Pray.
(b) Eat.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Rest.

7. What was wrong with the fruit that the "good-hearted monarch" gave to his favorite slave?
(a) It was worm-filled.
(b) It was rotten.
(c) It was bitter.
(d) It was hard.

8. What quote, from the Koran, did the voice from heaven remind the "faithless Moslem" about?
(a) "Fulfill your promises."
(b) "Surely there are signs in this for thinking men."
(c) "Did we not spread the earth like a bed and raise the mountains like pillars?"
(d) "Every soul shall taste death."

9. What were the birds told, by the hoopoe, to expect to plunge themselves into upon entering the Valley of Love?
(a) Caves of darkness.
(b) Rivers of ice.
(c) Seas of fire.
(d) A valley of winds.

10. What was the metaphor based upon the following tenet: "When my exchequer has no love to give"?
(a) Life.
(b) Sin.
(c) Hate.
(d) Blood-money.

11. Who was Majnoun searching for in the dust of the highway?
(a) Nisroc.
(b) Leili.
(c) Haniel.
(d) Jehoel.

12. What did the "ancient crone" use to place a bid on Jacob?
(a) Twisted threads.
(b) The deed to her land.
(c) One rooster.
(d) Her gold and jewels.

13. According to the peasant in the desert ("Sheikh Mahna and the Peasant"), what hides the musk of the hunted deer?
(a) Sweet air.
(b) The scent of other animals.
(c) The mixture of the blooms.
(d) Blood.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the hoopoe say must be empty for the heart to purify itself in the Valley of the Quest?

2. What was the fifth valley that the birds had to cross?

3. What did the poor man, who lived in a drainage ditch, borrow from his rich neighbor to ride to the mill?

4. What did the zonnar represent?

5. What did the "fool of God" claim would happen to those whose souls did not have feathers?

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