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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hafiz believed that God was too powerful and benevolent to resort to ______ and condemnation to elicit devotion from his children.
(a) Intimidation.
(b) Supplication.
(c) Propagation.
(d) Consternation.

2. Hafiz grew up in simple surroundings as the son of a _______ who died when Hafiz was only a teenager.
(a) Silversmith.
(b) Coal merchant.
(c) Priest.
(d) Writer.

3. Hafiz describes the unity of God and his worshipers in the poem "Laughing at the word _______."
(a) Many.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

4. Hafiz asks the reader to forgive this illusory life for its painfulness in the poem "Forgive the _____".
(a) Illusion.
(b) Pain.
(c) Vision.
(d) Dream.

5. Daniel Ladinsky describes Hafiz as a poet who has inspired some of the worlds greatest _______.
(a) Musicians.
(b) Poets.
(c) Playwrights.
(d) Writers.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Islamic fundamentalist leaders, it was ______ to claim intimacy with the divine.

2. The poem "Love is the Funeral Pyre" returns to the idea of burning away all that is ______.

3. In the poem "Who Wrote the Music", Hafiz describes himself as the ________ of men's thoughts.

4. Chapter 7 opens with the poem "Really Just a ______" in which Hafiz suggests everything is God's musical instrument.

5. The poem "A Hunting Party" makes the suggestion that the search for spiritual nourishment should take place ______.

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