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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Come to the Orchard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi notes there is only one search in the world: "___________ this world is wandering that..."
(a) Wandering.
(b) Knowing.
(c) Living.
(d) Breathing.

2. Shams asks Rumi who is greater, Muhammad the messenger of God, or ______ a mystic who claimed to be one with God.
(a) Balkh.
(b) Bestami.
(c) Konya.
(d) Tabriz.

3. The _____________ who are there in the orchard do not matter, according to Rumi, along with the light and the wine.
(a) Birds.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Sweethearts.
(d) Students.

4. ______ means the sun, and Rumi often referred to him in his poetry which he began writing after his friend's death.
(a) Shams.
(b) Solomon.
(c) Shiraz.
(d) Moses.

5. Rumi urges the reader to let go of the _____, the covering clothes, and to be naked in the world, according to his writing.
(a) Outcome.
(b) Brain.
(c) Truth.
(d) Heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anger is the main topic that Rumi explores in the poem entitled "A ______ Sky Hates the Moon."

2. Rumi points out that while others are laughing and dancing, there are few who will hear the ________ hidden within the notes.

3. Rumi gives advice about how to deal with hardship, "The cure for the ______ is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed."

4. Rumi's students saw ______ as a madman and he was eventually forced out of the area.

5. Those who do not wake to the truth, according to Rumi, are those who do not embrace the beauty of __________.

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