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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. 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 have to stay on earth and live in pain and fear.
(c) They would fail to move on, but they would be happy in their life on earth.
(d) They would burn forever in a pit of fire.

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

3. What did the zonnar represent?
(a) The wearer committed murder.
(b) The wearer committed adultry.
(c) The wearer was a thief.
(d) The wearer committed heresy.

4. What did the "good-hearted monarch" give to his favorite slave?
(a) A grape.
(b) A kiwi.
(c) A pear.
(d) An apple.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would deprive the birds of everything in the Valley of the Quest?

2. Which angel refused to bow to Adam, even under the threat of losing his head?

3. What made the man from "A Lord Who Loved a Beer-Seller" long to die?

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

5. What object struck the naked madman on the head as he was looking for shelter from the cold?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Valley of Unity.

2. How did the hoopoe answer the bird that claimed to be satisfied with his spiritual state and, therefore, did not need to go on the quest to see the Simorgh?

3. What must one do to find God in the Valley of the Quest?

4. What was the definition of justice that the hoopoe gave to the birds?

5. What did Mahna's shiekh tell the old woman about how to pray?

6. Describe the Valley of Bewilderment.

7. What did the hoopoe tell the birds to expect in the Valley of Love?

8. What did the hoopoe say about audacity being allowed before the Simorgh?

9. According to the hoopoe, what happened when one entered the Valley of Insight into Mystery?

10. Why did the bat wish to see the sun?

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