The Conference of the Birds Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Sufi texts#Farid ad-Din Attar
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Conference of the Birds Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Sufi texts#Farid ad-Din Attar
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According the the Shiekh Sam'an, what did the Self ignore?
(a) The history of the Fear.
(b) The secrets of the Way.
(c) The color of Truth.
(d) The power of Pride.

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

4. Where was the Shebli found when no one in Baghdad could guess where he was?
(a) In a field overgrown with wild flowers.
(b) A sexual service of men and boys establishment.
(c) Near the river by the caves.
(d) In a tree.

5. What did the turtle-dove wear around his neck?
(a) All the colors of the rainbow.
(b) A mark of Cain.
(c) A circle of light.
(d) A ring of loyalty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when the Shiekh Sam'an drank wine?

2. What does Bismillah mean?

3. Whom did the heron say that he loved and, therefore, could not go on the journey to find the Simorgh?

4. What did God tell Shiekh Noughani to do in Neishaspour to find a grain of gold?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened between Nimrod and the mosquitoes?

2. What was the "glance of Solomon"?

3. What did the birds decide they needed in a leader?

4. What was the meaning behind the story "A Pauper in Love with the King of Egypt"?

5. What must the francolin do with his Self?

6. Why was the murderer allowed access into heaven?

7. What did the birds ask the hoopoe about regarding the Way?

8. What did Socrates say to his student about burying him?

9. What was the problem with love according to the hoopoe?

10. Describe the phoenix from the hoopoe's story "The Phoenix."

(see the answer keys)

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