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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Conference of the Birds, pgs. 120-166.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What price did Ibrahim Adham pay for poverty?
(a) His wife.
(b) His daughter.
(c) His kingdom.
(d) His son.

2. Who did the judge say must pay for the murdered animal that the rich neighbor lent to the poor man, given the poor man could not pay for the animal (it died while he was borrowing it)?
(a) The rich man would have to absorb the loss.
(b) The mother of the poor man.
(c) God.
(d) The judge offerd to pay.

3. What did the poor man, who lived in a drainage ditch, borrow from his rich neighbor to ride to the mill?
(a) A camel.
(b) A goat.
(c) A donkey.
(d) A horse.

4. Shiekh Sam'an's people left for __________.
(a) Mecca.
(b) The mountains.
(c) Rau.
(d) The caves of David.

5. What did the "cowardly bird" claim was a "useless sacrifice"?
(a) Giving up his home.
(b) The deaths of many birds on the journey.
(c) Leaving his family.
(d) Giving up his wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did the hoopoe say the francolin had to reject?

2. How many years did it take for Rabe'eh to travel to Mecca?

3. What did a Sufi try to buy for nothing in Baghdad?

4. Where did God tell Gabriel to find the one who had cast away the Self and had a pure heart?

5. How did the king honor the fisherboy's friendship?

(see the answer key)

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