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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the "fool of God" claim would happen to those whose souls did not have feathers?
(a) They will be forever forgotten by others and die sad.
(b) They would burn forever in a pit of fire.
(c) They would fail to move on, but they would be happy in their life on earth.
(d) They would have to stay on earth and live in pain and fear.

3. Why did the lover want to kill his beloved?
(a) She had been disowned by her family.
(b) She was very ill.
(c) She loved another man.
(d) She had been banished by her tribe.

4. Who did Abraham fight with while he drew his last breaths?
(a) Reil'em.
(b) Jacob.
(c) Sam'an.
(d) Azra'el.

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

6. Which angel refused to bow to Adam, even under the threat of losing his head?
(a) Gavreel.
(b) Chamuel.
(c) Eblis.
(d) Iofiel.

7. What was the asking price for Jacob?
(a) Ten camels.
(b) Thirty-five sheep.
(c) Four horses.
(d) Five tubs of musk.

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

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

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

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

12. What did the "narrator" (the hoopoe) compare the beggar to in the story "The Beggar Who Fell in Love with Ayaz"?
(a) A gnat.
(b) An ant.
(c) A polo-ball.
(d) A donkey.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. God breathed a pure soul into Adam's __________.

2. What was the second test of the journey to find the Simorgh?

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 "good-hearted monarch" give to his favorite slave?

5. What was wrong with the fruit that the "good-hearted monarch" gave to his favorite slave?

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