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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. To whom did the hoopoe say the Way belonged?
(a) Everyone.
(b) Only those who survive the journey.
(c) Only the pure and strong.
(d) Only those whom accept the Simorgh.

2. What made the man from "A Lord Who Loved a Beer-Seller" long to die?
(a) His inability to smell the difference between food and waste.
(b) His failure to open his mouth.
(c) His failure to grasp food.
(d) His endless hunger.

3. What did the "sad, old woman" ask Mahna's shiekh to teach her how to do?
(a) Sing.
(b) Read.
(c) Pray.
(d) Write.

4. Who waited anxiously to see Joesph's face when he was up for sale as a slave?
(a) Romans.
(b) Sheikhs.
(c) Mystics.
(d) Egyptians.

5. What kind of voice spoke to the "faithless Molsem" from heaven?
(a) A saddened voice.
(b) A warning voice.
(c) A promising voice.
(d) An accepting voice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object did Joseph strike when he addressed his brothers about selling him into slavery?

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

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

4. What did the poor man, who lived in a drainage ditch, borrow from his rich neighbor to ride to the mill?

5. What did the man who swept the streets, whom received the trinket from Shah Mahmoud, say he would do until the day he died?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Valley of Unity.

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

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

4. Describe the Valley of Bewilderment.

5. 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?

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

7. Describe the stone man.

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

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

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

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