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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 did the prisoners hang as decorations to welcome their king back to the capital?
(a) Deceased animals.
(b) Severed heads.
(c) Orange blooms.
(d) Grapes.

2. What did Sheikh Ghouri tell Prince Sanjar that he must leave behind if he chose to be the men's enemy?
(a) Faith.
(b) Love.
(c) Power.
(d) Life.

3. What did the man, who refused to drink, refuse to drink?
(a) Ale.
(b) Wine.
(c) Water.
(d) Sweet sherbet.

4. Who did Abraham fight with while he drew his last breaths?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Azra'el.
(c) Sam'an.
(d) Reil'em.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of voice spoke to the "faithless Molsem" from heaven?

2. What were the birds told, by the hoopoe, to expect to plunge themselves into upon entering the Valley of Love?

3. What animal was the peasant leading when Sheikh Mahna came across him in the desert?

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

5. What did the dervishes renounce in "The Arab in Persia"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the hoopoe tell the birds to expect in the Valley of Love?

2. Why did the hoopoe not have an exact length of the quest for the birds?

3. According to the story "The Lover Who Wanted to Kill his Beloved," what must one do to be pious and reach the Lord?

4. What was the definition of justice that the hoopoe gave to the birds?

5. Describe the stone man.

6. Why was Husain, the son of Ali, killed?

7. Describe the Valley of Unity.

8. What must one do to find God in the Valley of the Quest?

9. What did the hoopoe say in regard to the length of the quest to see the Simorgh?

10. What were the two things that the Sheikh of Turkestan loved?

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