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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Whole Catastrophe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."
(a) Stars.
(b) Son.
(c) Moon.
(d) Sun.

2. Rumi was able to take all the usual existential issues that human beings face on a daily basis and change them to ______.
(a) Poetry.
(b) Lessons.
(c) Light.
(d) Pictures.

3. Joseph gives his Egyptian shirt to his ______ to lay over the eyes of Jacob, whose vision is then restored.
(a) Father.
(b) Sisters.
(c) Mother.
(d) Brothers.

4. Rumi states that "the human shape is a _______ made of distraction and pain, trying to open the image of itself."
(a) Circle.
(b) Sphere.
(c) Bowl.
(d) Ghost.

5. Anger is the main topic that Rumi explores in the poem entitled "A ______ Sky Hates the Moon."
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Egyptian woman that is in love with Joseph is known as _______, clings to his shirt and tears it from his back.

2. Rumi doesn't want "wealth and position." He suggests that in this matter he is "______ resisting the most enormous magnet there is."

3. When Rumi regained consciousness, he stated that _______ was the greater because he realized the breadth of God.

4. _______ was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt , gradually came to power there, and made a complicated trade route.

5. According to the book, when Rumi realized the greatness of Shams, he fell off his _______ unconscious.

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