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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Conference of the Birds, pgs. 166-213.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the hoopoe describing when he stated the following: "Your palace is a kennel with the rest...is your dungeon after death"?
(a) Hell.
(b) Fear.
(c) Pride.
(d) Heaven.

2. What did God tell Shiekh Noughani to do in Neishaspour to find a grain of gold?
(a) Sweep the main square.
(b) Find the man in red and inquire about a room.
(c) Clean the horse stalls.
(d) Follow the white horse of the king.

3. The gravedigger said ________ watched him dig graves?
(a) Fear.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Self.
(d) Pride.

4. God breathed a pure soul into Adam's __________.
(a) Dust.
(b) Debris.
(c) Clay.
(d) Earth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the "fruit " of love's great tree?

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

3. What object struck the naked madman on the head as he was looking for shelter from the cold?

4. What made the man from "A Lord Who Loved a Beer-Seller" long to die?

5. What price did Ibrahim Adham pay for poverty?

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