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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hafiz uses agricultural images to express the idea that humans are God's precious crop in the poem "His Winter _____".
(a) Solstice.
(b) Light.
(c) Crop.
(d) Harvest.

2. Hafiz suggests that surrender is _____ in the poem "The Clay Bowl's Destiny" and is God's intent for life on earth.
(a) Annihilation.
(b) Weakness.
(c) Foolish.
(d) Freedom.

3. The poem "This _____" describes unity with God as a place from which one must invite others to join in.
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) Love.
(c) Union.
(d) Separation.

4. Hafiz contrasts his own humility with the wild majesty of his Message in the poem "This Talking _____".
(a) Stick.
(b) Rag.
(c) Bucket.
(d) Bin.

5. In the poem, "_______" Hafiz describes the agony of shedding selfishness.
(a) Effacement.
(b) Embarassment.
(c) Atonement.
(d) Allotment.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "_____Hear Watchdogs" Hafiz describes the idea that true believers don't feel they have to trick God into blessing them.

2. Hafiz uses the image of all creation applauding in the warm gaze of God in the poem "Life Starts ______".

3. What does Hafiz encourage people to let go of when he is writing his poem, "Find a Better Job"?

4. In the final poem of Chapter 8, Hafiz reiterates that the _____ moment is meant for worship in "Now is the Time".

5. In the poem "What the Hell" Hafiz is unable to contain his ecstatic love and decorates a girl's house with _____.

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