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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 happened when Truth's sunlight cleared the air in the Valley of Insight into Mystery?
(a) All animals helped travelers find their way through.
(b) All travelers were blinded by the brightness.
(c) All paths braided into one.
(d) All travelers saw that they were welcomed.

2. Why did the lover want to kill his beloved?
(a) She had been banished by her tribe.
(b) She had been disowned by her family.
(c) She loved another man.
(d) She was very ill.

3. According to the story "A Sinner Enters Heaven, who is the only one that can show the end of Wisdom?
(a) God.
(b) Life.
(c) Man.
(d) Brain.

4. What advice did the hoopoe give to the goldfinch about earthly claims?
(a) Remember that you will leave them in death.
(b) Turn your back on them.
(c) Shut your eyes to them.
(d) Never claim them as your own.

5. In the story of the "Two Foxes," where did one fox say that he would meet up with the other after parting?
(a) In hell.
(b) In heaven.
(c) At God's right hand.
(d) At the furrier's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the Shebli found when no one in Baghdad could guess where he was?

2. What did the duck claim to be as part of his excuse as to why he could not go on the journey to find the Simorgh?

3. To whom did the hoopoe say the Way belonged?

4. What does Bismillah mean?

5. Why did the lover lay in exhaustion and sleep in "The Lover Who Slept"?

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