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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Solomon Poems : Chapter 2, Beginning to the Turn.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Much of Rumi's poetry is:
(a) Cryptic.
(b) Passionate.
(c) Sarcastic.
(d) Subdued.

2. In addition to being one of his students and his scribe, Husam Chelebi was Rumi's:
(a) Personal companion.
(b) Primary rival.
(c) Devoted house servant.
(d) Illegitimate son.

3. In the poems where Rumi includes a frog as one of the main characters, there is a deep friendship that develops between this frog and a:
(a) Bird.
(b) Mouse.
(c) Fish.
(d) Cat.

4. In many of Rumi's poems, not only in Book 1, Chapter 2, but throughout the whole book, his distinction between "me" and "you" is what?
(a) Humorous.
(b) Clear.
(c) Solid.
(d) Vague.

5. What is the Mathnawi?
(a) Supreme counselor Rumi and other poets of his era turned to for guidance.
(b) The law of the land followed by Rumi and his contemporaries.
(c) A code of conduct expected of scholars who studied directly under Rumi.
(d) Six volumes of poetry Rumi wrote when Husam Chelebi was his scribe.

Short Answer Questions

1. In this book, the term "nafs" refers to what?

2. Many of Rumi's poems are so personal that they help readers reconnect to what?

3. In one of the poems in Chapter 2, Book 2, when the oldest son decides to romantically pursue a Chinese princess, what happens to him?

4. In the folklore, Coleman Barks presents to introduce the poems of Chapter 2, Book 2, he writes about three men who teach others by:

5. In one of the poems in Chapter 2, Book 2, the girl that a king falls in love with becomes ill, which concerns him greatly. What does he do?

(see the answer key)

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