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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through We Have Opened You.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi suggests not doing the work God sent you for is "like using a priceless Indian _____ to cut rotten meat."
(a) Knife.
(b) Hatchet.
(c) Spear.
(d) Sword.

2. Rumi challenges us to "work in the ______ world as hard as we do in the visible" and to "be a companion with the prophets."
(a) Loving.
(b) Infinite.
(c) Invisible.
(d) Spiritual world.

3. The poet says that he is a letter to everyone around him, a letter which says, "_______" according to the poet.
(a) Honor.
(b) Love.
(c) Pray.
(d) Live.

4. Rumi describes a ______ that wakes up one day to discover that he is "the entire vineyard, and the orchard too."
(a) Ferret.
(b) Bird.
(c) Worm.
(d) Snake.

5. __________ in the presence, at the price of one's life, is a bargain, according to one of the poems of Rumi.
(a) Thinking.
(b) Singing.
(c) Kissing.
(d) Kneeling.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "The Prophets" the people wonder "How long should we keep pounding this cold _____?"

2. Rumi talks to the reader about the desired kiss as the _________ coming up into the lips of a person.

3. Rumi asserts in his poems that "the miracle of ______ is himself, not what he said or did about the future."

4. The poet compares himself to a __________, stripped of its petals and of its leaves, within one of the poems.

5. When the poet talks about tearing down the ___________, he is talking about tearing down the self.

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