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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Come Back, My Friend.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi asserts in his poems that "the miracle of ______ is himself, not what he said or did about the future."
(a) Muhammad.
(b) Buddha.
(c) Gandhi.
(d) Jesus.

2. Rumi advises the reader to disappear with the _________ each month and to bend like a tree limb.
(a) Tides.
(b) Moon.
(c) Animals.
(d) Sun.

3. The ________ speaking scripture brings the dead students of scripture to life, according to Rumi.
(a) Stone.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Cloud.
(d) Book.

4. Rumi describes the journey a person must make as drinking ______ like water and eating sunset, in his poems.
(a) Dawn.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Moonshine.
(d) Truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In a dream, according to Rumi, an _____________ in a garden of love reached out to call him forward.

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

3. _________, according to Rumi, will tend to accumulate while the real work is going on elsewhere.

4. The "___" is an illusion, according to Rumi, and this is why this part needs to be removed from the experience.

5. Rumi compares his soul to a drop in a spiritual _________ saying that it is always a certain season the human soul.

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