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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the hoopoe tell the birds that the journey required?
2. According to the hoopoe's story about the spider, how did the spider spend his days?
3. What is the real reason that the nightingale said he could not go on the journey to find the Simorgh?
4. What metaphor did the hoopoe use to describe "Self's grown gross"?
5. In what color was the parrot clothed?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was the murderer allowed access into heaven?
2. What was the meaning behind the story "A Pauper in Love with the King of Egypt"?
3. What was the "glance of Solomon"?
4. Why could the dervish and the princess not be together?
5. How did Abbasseh describe the Self?
6. Describe the parrot's plumage.
7. What did the birds ask the hoopoe about regarding the Way?
8. What will the quest do for the birds?
9. Why did the birds decide that they needed a king?
10. What problem did the hoopoe have with the hawk?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the actual conference of the birds. What was the purpose of the conference? What did the birds learn about the journey that they were to go on? Why does this journey parallel one that can be seen in anyone's life?
Essay Topic 2
The introduction of the book defines the use of metaphors as not typical of what an English reader would understand. Choose three examples of Attar's use of a metaphor and explain his use of the metaphor in the text.
Essay Topic 3
Two of the most important themes that traverse the book's entirety are the importance of passionate love and the destruction of the Self. However, many times these two themes are joined to show that one depends wholly on the other. Discuss the dependency that passionate love and the destruction of the self have throughout the book. Why do they depend on each other? What stories show this dependency, and how do the stories speak to the dependency? Use only details from the book for support.
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