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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The relationship between teacher and ______ is so intimate that it feels like a marriage is the subject of the poem "I Want Both of Us".
(a) Prodigy.
(b) Slave.
(c) Student.
(d) Servant.

2. Hafiz describes people who don't know their own glory as "The Sun in ________" in one of his poems.
(a) Shadow.
(b) Disguise.
(c) Water.
(d) Drag.

3. A person will be swallowed up by __________ if he does not find joyful work, according to Hafiz.
(a) The waters.
(b) The world.
(c) A book.
(d) Their ego.

4. In the poem "Why not be polite" Hafiz invites everyone to listen to those around them as if ____ were speaking through them.
(a) Attar.
(b) Saadi.
(c) Hafiz.
(d) God.

5. Hafiz describes the pain of seeing a decrease in love or understanding in the world in the poem "The ____ is Right".
(a) Head.
(b) Heart.
(c) Mind.
(d) Love.

6. Hafiz encourages people to bail from churches and cling to the lifeboats of poetry in the poem "The Great _____".
(a) Oppression.
(b) Lie.
(c) Religions.
(d) Travesties.

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

8. Hafiz uses a misled fish to symbolize people experiencing the confusion of life in "Trying to Wear _____"
(a) Pants.
(b) Gloves.
(c) Hats.
(d) Shirts.

9. When God's lute begs for a _________ hands, that when this person is able to be useful to God, according to Hafiz.
(a) Child's.
(b) Saint's.
(c) Teacher's.
(d) Mother's.

10. Hafiz believes that he is merely "A Hole in a __________" that God plays when he is writing and living his life.
(a) Flute.
(b) Tuba.
(c) Reed.
(d) Stone.

11. Hafiz suggests that sometimes God wearies of softly spoken love and he wants to shake his children by the shoulders in the poem called "Tired of Speaking _____".
(a) Harshly.
(b) Sweetly.
(c) Softly.
(d) Generously.

12. When Hafiz is so cleansed and finished by love, he becomes ___________ personified, ready to be consumed.
(a) Honor.
(b) Truth.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Understanding.

13. Hafiz uses the image of God as the ocean and anger is the thing that sinks men's boats in the poem called "The Great _____".
(a) Expanse.
(b) Captain.
(c) Mariner.
(d) Tide.

14. Hafiz returns to the idea that the __________ is temporary and that it is important to be connected to things that bring eternity and divinity to mind.
(a) Shadows.
(b) Physical world.
(c) Truth.
(d) Church.

15. Hafiz asserts that he is an earth that will perish without the ______ of God's presence in the poem "That Does Perish".
(a) Universe.
(b) Sun.
(c) Star.
(d) Moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Love Lifts Me" is the response of the _________ who can defy gravity and gloom, according to Hafiz.

2. A poem is an ornery __________ which begs to be heard, according to the writing of Hafiz.

3. The poem "____ You to My Body" describes Hafiz's desire to keep his students close and teach them all the time.

4. When a person does not understand the proximity of God in his life, Hafiz says he might have to ___________ them.

5. Hafiz discusses the experience of falling out of trust with God and then moving towards trusting again in the poem "A Still ____".

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