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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Solomon Poems : Chapter 1, Islam & Christianity in the Middle East.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi's short-story format found in some of his poems is characterized by:
(a) A complete, self-contained story.
(b) Angelic teachers.
(c) A mystical, mysterious story.
(d) Bizarre characters.

2. In one poem in Book 2, Chapter 1, Rumi uses the image of Jesus Christ riding atop a donkey to explain a lesson about what?
(a) The master becoming the servant.
(b) The rational mind and the animalistic nature of mankind.
(c) The lack of pretense when one is self-confident.
(d) The divine living in the human world.

3. In the poems about an unlikely friendship between two different animals, one of them being a frog, these two animals have very different what?
(a) Life spans.
(b) Sizes.
(c) Environmental needs.
(d) Names.

4. The purpose of Coleman Barks' preambles to Rumi's poems is to:
(a) Add a new twist to the message of each poem.
(b) Expand upon Barks' discomfort with each.
(c) Help the reader interpret each poem.
(d) Get the reader to come up with his or her own judgments.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Over time, what has Coleman Barks been able to do with Rumi's poems?

2. What post did Rumi inherit?

3. In one poem in Book 2, Chapter 1, Rumi states that every sheik rides a lion, whether that lion is:

4. Many of Rumi's poems reveal that life is not two-dimensional; on the contrary, it is very:

5. In a poem in Book 1, Chapter 3, Rumi writes about a deer dying in the paws of a:

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