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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hafiz refers to the process of growing in love and knowledge by making oneself a student of a master in these things "The _____ Work".
(a) Important.
(b) Meaningful.
(c) Good.
(d) Great.

2. According to Ladinsky, Hafiz was the youngest child of the family having _____ older brothers.
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

3. Hafiz studied under ______ another poet of great renown. He was taught poetry, chemistry, theology, nature and harmonious living.
(a) Lalla.
(b) Attar.
(c) Saadi.
(d) Rumi.

4. In the poem "Your _____ and my _______" Hafiz describes the eternal communion between souls.
(a) Heart.
(b) Hand.
(c) Brother.
(d) Mother.

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

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

3. The poem "A _____ Rim" describes his soul flying from him into heaven to sing with God.

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

5. Chapter one's poem's are more _______ and use imagery from nature, music, dining, fishing, hunting, etc.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of the poem, "Everywhere, " according to this translation of Hafiz?

2. In "I Rain," to what is Hafiz's poetry compared within the actions of nature and weather?

3. What does Hafiz reveal about himself in "Mismatched Newlyweds," according to this translation?

4. What is the ratio of copies of Hafiz's work in relation to the Quran in his own hometown city of Shiraz?

5. What does Hafiz send with the animals in order to spy on God in "The Ear that was Sold to a Fish"?

6. What is the request Hafiz makes of believers in the poem, "Out of This Mess"?

7. What is the symbolism used to describe God in "Lifts Beyond Conception,"according to this translation of Hafiz?

8. What is the purpose of Hafiz's desire to speak the universal truths in his poems, according to the translator?

9. What is the point of the poem, "Some Fill with Each Good Rain," according to this translation of Hafiz?

10. What is the permission that Hafiz grants the reader in "Get the Blame Straight," according to this translation of Hafiz?

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