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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many starving brothers did Joesph have leave their home to come and stand in his presence and beg for help?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Ten.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Eight.

2. What did the "sad, old woman" ask Mahna's shiekh to teach her how to do?
(a) Sing.
(b) Read.
(c) Pray.
(d) Write.

3. During the Egyptian famine, what did the people beg for as they died?
(a) Water.
(b) Corn.
(c) Rice.
(d) Bread.

4. What did the dervishes renounce in "The Arab in Persia"?
(a) Riches.
(b) The world.
(c) Pride.
(d) God.

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

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

7. According to the hoopoe, what led those who started along the Way?
(a) Love.
(b) Morality.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hope.

8. What did the prisoners hang as decorations to welcome their king back to the capital?
(a) Severed heads.
(b) Deceased animals.
(c) Grapes.
(d) Orange blooms.

9. Who waited anxiously to see Joesph's face when he was up for sale as a slave?
(a) Romans.
(b) Sheikhs.
(c) Mystics.
(d) Egyptians.

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

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

12. Who did Ahmad Hanbal consult when he felt that his mind was inadequate to answer a question?
(a) God.
(b) A beggar.
(c) An owl.
(d) His mystic.

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

14. What did the poor man, who lived in a drainage ditch, borrow from his rich neighbor to ride to the mill?
(a) A donkey.
(b) A goat.
(c) A horse.
(d) A camel.

15. 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) A valley of winds.
(c) Seas of fire.
(d) Rivers of ice.

Short Answer Questions

1. For travelers, what disappeared in the Valley of Detachment?

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

3. Who was Majnoun searching for in the dust of the highway?

4. What way did pilgrims take when they entered the Valley of Insight into Mystery?

5. What animal was the peasant leading when Sheikh Mahna came across him in the desert?

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