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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the "indecisive bird" claim that he could not go on the journey to the Way?
(a) He was "broken."
(b) He was a drunk.
(c) He had obligations.
(d) His family needed him.

2. What did the hoopoe say was the lure of the falcon?
(a) Simorgh.
(b) God.
(c) The hoopoe.
(d) Love.

3. What did Malek Dinar claim that he had done after getting bread from God?
(a) Fed the birds.
(b) Fed the poor.
(c) Hoarded the bread.
(d) Carried out the Evil One's commands.

4. What did the duck claim to be as part of his excuse as to why he could not go on the journey to find the Simorgh?
(a) The poorest bird.
(b) The happiest bird.
(c) The purest bird.
(d) The most misunderstood bird.

5. Where was the Shebli found when no one in Baghdad could guess where he was?
(a) In a field overgrown with wild flowers.
(b) In a tree.
(c) A sexual service of men and boys establishment.
(d) Near the river by the caves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does one have to enter to have a "wave of indecision flood" them?

2. What did the Lord say clothed the simpleton who walked naked through the crowd?

3. Who did the hoopoe say the francolin had to reject?

4. How many birds gathered around the Hoopoe after he was chosen leader for the journey?

5. Why did the nightingale claim that he could not go on the journey to find the Simorgh?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Socrates say to his student about burying him?

2. Describe the phoenix from the hoopoe's story "The Phoenix."

3. What must the francolin do with his Self?

4. Why did a "cowardly bird" protest going on the quest for the Simorgh?

5. How did Abbasseh describe the Self?

6. Why did the hoopoe compare the finch to Moses?

7. What reason did the nightingale give for not wanting to go on the journey to find the Simorgh?

8. What will the quest do for the birds?

9. Why could the dervish and the princess not be together?

10. What happened between Nimrod and the mosquitoes?

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