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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. How many birds gathered around the Hoopoe after he was chosen leader for the journey?
(a) Every bird on earth.
(b) One million.
(c) One hundred thousand.
(d) Ten thousand.

2. What did the miserly bird claim to love?
(a) Pride.
(b) Misery.
(c) Gold.
(d) Solitude.

3. What does the following mean? "But hide a hundred idols with your cloak; If you're a eunuch underneath, don't dress In clothes of high heroic manliness."
(a) Hide who you really are.
(b) If you are brave, dress brave.
(c) Be true to yourself.
(d) Pretending is okay with God.

4. What did the hoopoe have on his head?
(a) A halo.
(b) A lion's mane.
(c) A list of God's wishes.
(d) Truth's crown.

5. Why did the nightingale claim that he could not go on the journey to find the Simorgh?
(a) Love.
(b) Pride.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hate.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom, according to the hoopoe, would the pheasant reign?

2. For whom did the hoopoe work as a secret message deliverer?

3. According to the hoopoe's story about the spider, how did the spider spend his days?

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

5. What did the hoopoe say the quest was for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Abbasseh describe the Self?

2. What was the meaning behind the story "A Pauper in Love with the King of Egypt"?

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

4. What will the quest do for the birds?

5. Why was the murderer allowed access into heaven?

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

7. What happened between Nimrod and the mosquitoes?

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

9. What did the birds decide they needed in a leader?

10. How did the hoopoe define a lover while he was advising the birds?

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