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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

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) Harvest.
(d) Crop.

2. Within his poetry, Hafiz tells the reader that he is speaking _______ truths mean to free people to celebrate and revel in the divine.
(a) Archaic.
(b) Universal.
(c) Moral.
(d) Selective.

3. Hafiz uses guests at a ______ party as object lessons in the poem "If God Invited you to a Party".
(a) Outrageous.
(b) Holy.
(c) Drunken.
(d) Private.

4. The opening essay gives the approximate dates during which Hafiz lived and states that he was a contemporary of _______.
(a) Henry S. Mindlin.
(b) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(c) H. Wilberforce Clarke.
(d) William Shakespeare.

5. Hafiz wrote his poems in the ______ century. However, dignitaries throughout the ages since, including the Queen of England consulted his works.
(a) Fifteenth.
(b) Sixteenth.
(c) Thirteenth.
(d) Fourteenth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hafiz is said to have devoted himself to a ______ day vigil at the tomb of a saint said to be able to grant the deepest desires of anyone.

2. Hafiz instructs people to learn to see cause to celebrate even the mundane in the poem "If the Falling of a _____"

3. In the poem "Curfews" ______ is the key to freedom that Hafiz offers to the reader.

4. According to Ladinsky, Hafiz is thought of as an _______ so able was he to access the voice of God.

5. Haifz uses his crush on a girl to symbolize his affection for God in the poem, "What the ______".

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