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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poem "Don't _____ Again" opens up the fifth chapter and encourages people to seek God throughout their life.
(a) Live.
(b) Resist.
(c) Stop.
(d) Die.

2. Having demonstrated his ability as a poet, Hafiz won several positions including all of the following except ______.
(a) Teacher.
(b) Court poet.
(c) Poet laureate.
(d) College professor.

3. Life itself, rather than religion is described by Hafiz as the way to finding God in the poem "The _____ of Existence".
(a) Pathway.
(b) Stairway.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Door.

4. In the poem "That Shapes the ______", Hafiz the purity and easy happiness of youth and the benefits of focusing on God in age.
(a) Eye.
(b) Hands.
(c) Face.
(d) Soul.

5. Hafiz instructs people to learn to see cause to celebrate even the mundane in the poem "If the Falling of a _____"
(a) Foot.
(b) Hoof.
(c) Horseshoe.
(d) Paw.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hafiz believed that God was too powerful and benevolent to resort to ______ and condemnation to elicit devotion from his children.

2. It is suggested in the fourth chapter that ______ is a transformer of perspective and character.

3. In the poem "What do the _____ Birds Say" Hafiz uses the symbols of the illusory Earth falling away and the fullness of God opening like a ____ in his heart.

4. Chapter 9 opens with the poem "The Prettiest ______" in which human beings are compared to dumb herding animals.

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

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