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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What way did pilgrims take when they entered the Valley of Insight into Mystery?
(a) The low path.
(b) All different ways.
(c) The high path.
(d) The path less trodden.

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

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

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

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

7. What name did the "ancient crone" give to Jacob when shouting to the seller about him?
(a) Pearl.
(b) My love.
(c) Sow's ear.
(d) Canaanite.

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

9. Why did the man from "A Lord Who Loved a Beer-Seller" act like a drunkard?
(a) To hide his sorrows.
(b) To fake his mental unrest.
(c) To be closer to the Devil.
(d) To be near a boy.

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

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

12. What happened to the Arab's riches in "The Arab in Persia"?
(a) They were offered up to God.
(b) They were lost on his journey.
(c) They were stolen by the dervishes.
(d) They were buried in the sand.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The stone man was known as ___________.

2. What was the metaphor based upon the following tenet: "When my exchequer has no love to give"?

3. Why did the Indian King tell Mahmoud that he was crying?

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

5. What happened when Truth's sunlight cleared the air in the Valley of Insight into Mystery?

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