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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _______ was a major part of Persian culture including such accomplished masters as Saadi, Attar, and Rumi.
(a) Sculpting.
(b) Baking.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Painting.

2. Hafiz uses the image of being on a mule exploring God's wonder in the poem "The Mule Got Drunk and Lost in _____".
(a) Hell.
(b) The desert.
(c) The woods.
(d) Heaven.

3. The seventh chapter closes with praise of mediation in the poem "Let ______ Become Your Beautiful Lover".
(a) Thought.
(b) Life.
(c) Beauty.
(d) God.

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) Hands.
(b) Face.
(c) Eye.
(d) Soul.

5. 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.
(a) White, Rose.
(b) Blue, Rose.
(c) Blue, Lilly.
(d) Yellow, Rose.

6. The poem "Some Fill With Each Good _____" encourages people to give their most intimate affection to those who requite it.
(a) Rain.
(b) Wind.
(c) Sun.
(d) Snow.

7. The poem "Removing the ______ From the Temple" describes any place where where is praying as the temple of God.
(a) Shoe.
(b) Shirt.
(c) Sock.
(d) Hat.

8. Hafiz believed that a Perfect Master personifies all of the following qualities except _______ and expresses them in every activity of life.
(a) Perfect joy.
(b) Perfect knowing.
(c) Perfect love.
(d) Perfect health.

9. 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) Writer.
(d) Priest.

10. Ladinsky used the work of ______ published in 1891 to guide this particular translation of Hafiz's work.
(a) Meher Baba.
(b) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(c) Henry S. Mindlin.
(d) H. Wilberforce Clarke.

11. According to the Islamic fundamentalist leaders, it was ______ to claim intimacy with the divine.
(a) Blasphemy.
(b) Devout.
(c) Standard practice.
(d) Rhetoric.

12. The poem "Startled by God" uses the image of _____ startled by a broken stick.
(a) Birds.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Deer.

13. 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.

14. In Hafiz's poem "Wise Men Keep Talking About" God is portrayed as a ______ and life is a love factory.
(a) Woman.
(b) Teddy bear.
(c) Man.
(d) Child.

15. The poem "A _____ Rim" describes his soul flying from him into heaven to sing with God.
(a) Golden.
(b) Crystal.
(c) Gossamer.
(d) Glass.

Short Answer Questions

1. The opening essay gives the approximate dates during which Hafiz lived and states that he was a contemporary of _______.

2. The poem "So Many _____" is used by Hafiz to represent all the blessings of God that go unclaimed.

3. The poems "God Just Came Near", "The Sun Never Says", and "The Seed Cracked Open" use imagery from ______ to describe the connection to God.

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

5. Hafiz deals with the issue of men listening to their worst selves in the poem "______ Deals".

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