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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sufis are loved the world over for reminding us that the glory is our ______ reality and the opposite is a kind of language for expressing it.
(a) Outer.
(b) Lower.
(c) Surface.
(d) Inner.

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

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

4. Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the remote town of _______ in what is now Afghanistan.
(a) Konya.
(b) Balkh.
(c) Bestami.
(d) Anatolia.

5. In one of the poems, ______ cuts open a fish and discovers a gold ring. Omar storms in to kill the prophet.
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Shams.
(c) Solomon.
(d) Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi's mystical work was contained within the patterns of ______ Sufism but the life was witness to the boundless universality of the heart.

2. Rumi states "This _____ began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place I will be completely sober."

3. Rumi suggests "My _____ is from elsewhere. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."

4. Rumi sent his son _______ to bring back his exiled companion. He was found playing cards with the future St. Francis of Assisi.

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

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