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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Solomon Poems : Chapter 3, New Section.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To Rumi, political governance is not so much about military maneuvers but more about what?
(a) Looking like you know what you're doing.
(b) Acquiring wealth and status.
(c) Creating balance and harmony.
(d) Treating people like little children.

2. What is the "animal soul" that Rumi writes about?
(a) The wilder, more instinctive part of a person.
(b) A concept that only young children comprehend.
(c) The spirit found within animals.
(d) The guardian of the animal kingdom.

3. In one of the love stories of Chapter 2, Book 2, what happens when three sons meet a powerful Chinese princess?
(a) They become her prisoners.
(b) They become her husbands.
(c) They fall in love with her.
(d) They fall into the river.

4. Chapter 2 of Book 2 includes a large quantity of:
(a) Ghost tales.
(b) Love stories.
(c) Animal fables.
(d) War stories.

5. In the story of three fish that possess some measure of intelligence, found in Book 2, Chapter 1, who do the fish face?
(a) Human fishermen.
(b) A hungry crocodile.
(c) Three insects.
(d) Bigger fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the New Expanded Edition of this book published?

2. 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?

3. What does the fish with medium intelligence do in the tale of three fish in Book 2, Chapter 1?

4. In a poem in Book 2, Chapter 1, after a wise man feeds a poor man, what does he make the poor man do?

5. Rumi's works are deeply:

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