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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 hoopoe say must be empty for the heart to purify itself in the Valley of the Quest?
(a) Hands.
(b) Souls.
(c) Minds.
(d) Selfs.

2. What did God force the angel, who knew his secret about Adam, wear around his neck?
(a) A ring.
(b) A ribbon.
(c) A branding.
(d) A scar.

3. How did Majnoun disguise himself to approach the campground?
(a) In a sheepskin.
(b) In a peasant's robe.
(c) As a mystic.
(d) As a beggar.

4. The bird that burned with aspiration said his soul was devoured by_________.
(a) Fear.
(b) Insatiate zeal.
(c) Nothingness.
(d) Hate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the hoopoe, what led those who started along the Way?

2. What quote, from the Koran, did the voice from heaven remind the "faithless Moslem" about?

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

4. What did the living people begin to do as death filled the roads during the Egyptian famine?

5. What did the "narrator" (the hoopoe) compare the beggar to in the story "The Beggar Who Fell in Love with Ayaz"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to the hoopoe, why are loyalty and justice put beside "such majesty"?

3. Why did the slave not complain about the apple that his king gave to him?

4. Describe the Valley of Bewilderment.

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

6. What were the two things that the Sheikh of Turkestan loved?

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

8. How did the bird who claimed that he had bad luck substantiate his claim that he could not go on the quest with the hoopoe?

9. Why did the hoopoe not have an exact length of the quest for the birds?

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

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