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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 is the real reason that the nightingale said he could not go on the journey to find the Simorgh?
(a) He is too rich.
(b) He is too weak.
(c) He is too arrogant.
(d) He is to proud.

2. What was the "fruit " of love's great tree?
(a) Washed sins.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Honor.
(d) Wealth.

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

4. What was the color of mourning in ancient Persia?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Purple.

5. What did the hoopoe say was the lure of the falcon?
(a) Love.
(b) Simorgh.
(c) The hoopoe.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Shiekh Noughani ask for from God after seven days had passed during his trip to Neishaspour?

2. What did the "ancient crone" use to place a bid on Jacob?

3. What did the turtle-dove wear around his neck?

4. According to the hoopoe's story about the spider, how did the spider spend his days?

5. Whom did the Shiekh Sam'an see at dawn when he smelled the "musk-diffusing breeze"?

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