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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. 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) Mouse.
(b) Fish.
(c) Bird.
(d) Cat.

2. Rumi's short-story poems range from less than fifty lines to approximately what length?
(a) Ten thousand lines.
(b) Two thousand lines.
(c) Two hundred lines.
(d) A hundred twenty lines.

3. In the second love story in Chapter 2, Book 2, the three sons end up affected by their reactions to what?
(a) Limits imposed on them by their employer.
(b) What is forbidden to them.
(c) The unexpected death of the woman all three love.
(d) What turns out to be nothing but a rumor.

4. After the girl whom the king loves gets better in one of the poems in Chapter 2, Book 2, what does the doctor do?
(a) Strikes her lover dead.
(b) Becomes the king's lover.
(c) Reveals that the king is a fraud.
(d) Kills the sorcerer.

5. When the animal soul that Rumi refers to is lacking, it leads to what?
(a) Vigor.
(b) Order.
(c) Frailty.
(d) Wildness.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a poem in Book 1, Chapter 2, when a city is taken by siege, what happens to one of the invaders?

2. Before responding to the king's command in a poem in Book 1, Chapter 3, what does Ayaz do?

3. In addition to being one of his students and his scribe, Husam Chelebi was Rumi's:

4. In a poem in Book 1, Chapter 3 involving a complicated love triangle consisting of a man and two women, Rumi explores what subjects?

5. What elevates Rumi's poems beyond a simple collection of ideas?

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