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

2. What was the metaphor based upon the following tenet: "When my exchequer has no love to give"?
(a) Sin.
(b) Hate.
(c) Blood-money.
(d) Life.

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

4. What was the fifth valley that the birds had to cross?
(a) Nothingness.
(b) Awe.
(c) Detachment.
(d) Unity.

5. Why did the Indian King tell Mahmoud that he was crying?
(a) His son had been taken prisoner.
(b) His wife had died.
(c) His daughter had been sold illegally into slavery.
(d) Thoughts of Judgement Day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the asking price for Jacob?

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

3. In the Valley of Love, what did the falcons search for as they flew?

4. What did everyone refuse to do to Ahmad Hanbal?

5. What way did pilgrims take when they entered the Valley of Insight into Mystery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the hoopoe say in regard to the length of the quest to see the Simorgh?

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

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

4. Describe the stone man.

5. According to the story "The Lover Who Wanted to Kill his Beloved," what must one do to be pious and reach the Lord?

6. Why was Husain, the son of Ali, killed?

7. According to the hoopoe, who does the Way belong to?

8. Describe the Valley of Unity.

9. What did the lover of the man who slept all the time write on the note that she attached to his sleeve?

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

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