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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'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 war.
(c) A romance.
(d) A dirty joke.

2. Rumi lived most of his life in ______ Turkey which at the time was a great meeting place for many different cultures.
(a) Bestami.
(b) Tabriz.
(c) Balkh.
(d) Konya,

3. Rumi doesn't want "wealth and position." He suggests that in this matter he is "______ resisting the most enormous magnet there is."
(a) Steel.
(b) Silver.
(c) Gold.
(d) Iron.

4. Rumi realizes that in all of his searching, he has actually been waiting to be _________ as opposed to brought inside.
(a) Destroyed.
(b) Devoured.
(c) Believed.
(d) Let out.

5. Who is the spiritual leader who is approached in order to see how a person might be coaxed into learning?
(a) Shams.
(b) Rumi.
(c) Ramakrishna.
(d) Bawa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi challenges us to "work in the ______ world as hard as we do in the visible" and to "be a companion with the prophets."

2. The _____________ who are there in the orchard do not matter, according to Rumi, along with the light and the wine.

3. When a man is approached by a person who wants to bring his reluctant cousin to a spiritual leader, what is used to convince the cousin?

4. Rumi instructs us to "consider what the prophets have done. ______ wore fire for an anklet, Moses spoke to the sea."

5. Love is more than an old study of _________, according to the writing of Rumi in this section.

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