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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The Tavern : Chapter 2, Desire & New Silk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the end, where does the Caliph of a poem in Book 1, Chapter 2 send the mysterious, beautiful woman from the city his men have invaded?
(a) Back to the captain.
(b) To a monastery.
(c) To another city.
(d) Back to her family.

2. Which of the following best describes the word exoteric?
(a) Secret rituals.
(b) Incomprehensible words.
(c) Humorous sayings.
(d) Open teachings.

3. What happens when the Caliph meets a beautiful, mysterious woman from the city his men have invaded, in a poem in Book 1, Chapter 2?
(a) He regrets his actions.
(b) One of his men attacks him.
(c) He falls in love with her.
(d) The woman attacks him.

4. In addition to being a religious leader, Rumi was a what?
(a) Physician.
(b) Soldier.
(c) Scholar.
(d) Gardener.

5. How many additional poems were translated and included in the New Expanded Edition?
(a) 81.
(b) 23.
(c) 58.
(d) 92.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poems about an unlikely friendship between two different animals, one of them being a frog, these two animals have very different what?

2. 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?

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

4. What is one of the central teachings of Rumi?

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

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