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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Path of Blame.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Love is more than an old study of _________, according to the writing of Rumi in this section.
(a) Art.
(b) Religion.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Honor.

2. A _______ asks a man who is calling to Allah whether he has ever gotten a reply and then chastises the person for continuing to pray.
(a) Devil.
(b) Demon.
(c) Cynic.
(d) Book.

3. The writer continues to tell the reader to keep working, searching for __________ in the daily practice.
(a) Women.
(b) Water.
(c) Answers.
(d) Love.

4. Rumi uses the metaphor of tilling the soil to plant trees and roses for the way that one breaks up the __________.
(a) Love in one's life.
(b) Truth.
(c) Soul.
(d) Lessons one is taught.

5. From talking to a ______ to eating cabbage broth, Rumi says that the tasks of everyday life bring a person into a spiritual realm.
(a) Peasant.
(b) Priest.
(c) Spouse.
(d) Barber.

Short Answer Questions

1. Not doing the work God sent you for is the equivalent of "using a _____ bowl to cook turnips in.

2. The man compares himself to a __________ in the sunrise, saying that he is lost in his lover's reflection.

3. Rumi suggests that human beings are like "some weird kind of ______ that wants to stay melted in the furnace."

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

5. Rumi describes a ______ that wakes up one day to discover that he is "the entire vineyard, and the orchard too."

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