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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rise Up Nimbly and Go on Your Strange Journey.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Not doing the work God sent you to do is like "pounding a _____ of the finest tempering to hang things on."
(a) Nail.
(b) Spear.
(c) Knife.
(d) Sword.

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

3. Rumi met his companion Shams of _______ , described as a "street boddhisattva", in the marketplace.
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Balkh.
(c) Bestami.
(d) Konya.

4. Rumi's "story gets told in various ways" including all of the following except________. He recommends that others not get too close to him.
(a) A funeral.
(b) A dirty joke.
(c) A romance.
(d) A war.

5. Rumi suggests that "sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own ________."
(a) Smallness.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Immensity.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shams asks Rumi who is greater, Muhammad the messenger of God, or ______ a mystic who claimed to be one with God.

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

3. Rumi was able to take all the usual existential issues that human beings face on a daily basis and change them to ______.

4. Rumi notes that the miracle of Jesus is ______, not what he did or said about the future, according to the poems.

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

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