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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 refers to the field that develops between the formless source and form ______ a personified image.
(a) The mother.
(b) The father.
(c) The daughter.
(d) The friend.

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

3. The pull of love is something Rumi compares to a ________, urging the reader to realize learning is about more than just books.
(a) Lute.
(b) River.
(c) Bugle.
(d) Reed.

4. The journey is a practice of ____________, rather than studying or learning with logic from the mind.
(a) Experiencing.
(b) Falling.
(c) Practicing.
(d) Jumping.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The _________ represents the imagination where the spiritual journey takes place, according to Rumi.

2. Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the remote town of _______ in what is now Afghanistan.

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

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

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

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