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

2. What did the hoopoe say the quest was for?
(a) Truth.
(b) Hope.
(c) Power.
(d) Love.

3. On what mountain peak did the Simorgh live?
(a) Bine.
(b) Zaw.
(c) Pike.
(d) Kaf.

4. Whom did the woodcutter say that God helps?
(a) Only those whom have seen the light of God.
(b) Only those whom have accepted him.
(c) All sinners.
(d) Only those who do not sin.

5. What did the "faithless Moslem" and the "faithful infidel" stop at points during their fighting to do?
(a) Rest.
(b) Pray.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Eat.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did the hoopoe quote the following: "You cannot gain salvation while the things you love remain."

2. To whom did the hoopoe compare the nightingale?

3. What did the "fool of God" claim would happen to those whose souls did not have feathers?

4. What does Bismillah mean?

5. What did the hoopoe say forced a "vicious sinner to repent"?

(see the answer key)

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