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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. When the animal soul Rumi writes about is in proper balance, it:
(a) Endangers the human.
(b) Brings about defeat.
(c) Disappears.
(d) Supports the human.

2. What elevates Rumi's poems beyond a simple collection of ideas?
(a) Rich imagery.
(b) Confounding words.
(c) His references to other cultures.
(d) His use of diagrams.

3. Who is Reynold Nicholson?
(a) Critic who disliked Rumi's work.
(b) Writer who wrote a complete biography about Rumi.
(c) Scholar who attempted to translate some of Rumi's poems.
(d) Religious leader who quoted from Rumi's poems extensively.

4. Wanting to help the sick girl he loves, the king in a poem in Chapter 2, Book 2 decides to do what?
(a) Bring forth a banished sorcerer.
(b) Help reunite her with the one she loves.
(c) Send her back to her village.
(d) Give her costly medicines.

5. In a poem in Chapter 2, Book 2, how does the sick girl who has an "emotional thorn" and who is loved by a king get better?
(a) She is accepted by the man she loves.
(b) She is cured by costly medicines.
(c) She is happy to be reunited with her family.
(d) She is healed by a questionable sorcerer.

Short Answer Questions

1. As far as being a student, Husam Chelebi was:

2. What happens to the second son who tries to woo a Chinese princess in one of Rumi's poems in Chapter 2, Book 2?

3. In some of his poems, Rumi refers to religious figures:

4. What prominent themes are found in much of Rumi's work?

5. When speaking to the camel in the story in Book 1, Chapter 3, the mouse admits that it is what?

(see the answer key)

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