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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did God tell Shiekh Noughani to do in Neishaspour to find a grain of gold?
2. What did the hoopoe say forced a "vicious sinner to repent"?
3. For whom did the hoopoe work as a secret message deliverer?
4. Why is the Way lifeless-according to the hoopoe?
5. What did the hoopoe say was the lure of the falcon?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why could the dervish and the princess not be together?
2. What reason did the nightingale give for not wanting to go on the journey to find the Simorgh?
3. What did Socrates say to his student about burying him?
4. What was the problem with love according to the hoopoe?
5. Why did a "cowardly bird" protest going on the quest for the Simorgh?
6. Describe the parrot's plumage.
7. According to the text, how does an earthly king act?
8. What did the birds ask the hoopoe about regarding the Way?
9. What will the quest do for the birds?
10. Describe the phoenix from the hoopoe's story "The Phoenix."
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
At the end of the book, the birds find out that they are, in fact, the Simorgh. Discuss the inferences that are made throughout the book that hint at this being true. How did their concerns, actions, fears, and successes lead you to believe that the birds were the Simorgh.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the history of Farid Ud-Din Attar. Address several of the following: Who was he? Why was he important? What were his typical writings about? What was the relevance of the book The Conference of the Birds? What did Attar prove in writing the text? What did the text cost him? Who was Attar influenced by? Why was Attar influenced by Sufism?
Essay Topic 3
The introduction of the book defines the use of metaphors as not typical of what an English reader would understand. Choose three examples of Attar's use of a metaphor and explain his use of the metaphor in the text.
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