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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 living people begin to do as death filled the roads during the Egyptian famine?
2. According to the peasant in the desert ("Sheikh Mahna and the Peasant"), what hides the musk of the hunted deer?
3. What was wrong with the fruit that the "good-hearted monarch" gave to his favorite slave?
4. What did the "faithless Moslem" and the "faithful infidel" stop at points during their fighting to do?
5. Who did Ahmad Hanbal consult when he felt that his mind was inadequate to answer a question?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the hoopoe not have an exact length of the quest for the birds?
2. What did the lover of the man who slept all the time write on the note that she attached to his sleeve?
3. According to the hoopoe, what happened when one entered the Valley of Insight into Mystery?
4. What did the hoopoe say in regard to the length of the quest to see the Simorgh?
5. Describe the Valley of Detachment.
6. What must one do to find God in the Valley of the Quest?
7. From the story "The Beggar Who Fell in Love with Ayaz," how was it justified that a beggar could be seen as an equal in royal court?
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. Describe the Valley of Unity.
10. Why did the slave not complain about the apple that his king gave to him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the history of Farid Ud-Din Attar. Address several of the following: Who was he? Why was he important? What were his typical writings about? What was the relevance of the book The Conference of the Birds? What did Attar prove in writing the text? What did the text cost him? Who was Attar influenced by? Why was Attar influenced by Sufism?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the personification of the Self, Love, Truth, Unity, Reality, and the Way. How are these personified? Why are they personified? What purpose does the personification serve in respect to the lesson that Attar was trying to teach?
Essay Topic 3
The entire book was about the "Way." How did Attar show that the journey was important to all of mankind? What did Attar show to prove that this is a journey that all mankind must choose to face? Use textual evidence to support reasoning.
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