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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through I Have Such a Teacher.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. __________ in the presence, at the price of one's life, is a bargain, according to one of the poems of Rumi.
(a) Kneeling.
(b) Kissing.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Singing.

2. Rumi's students saw ______ as a madman and he was eventually forced out of the area.
(a) Bestami.
(b) Shams.
(c) Balkh.
(d) Muhammad.

3. The poet has to ask Shams and _________ to help him, since he is partly within himself and partly outside of himself.
(a) Books.
(b) Peasant.
(c) Moon.
(d) Sun.

4. Rumi stops his list of things which he uses to describe a friend within his poem in order to ______________.
(a) Pray.
(b) Dance his dance.
(c) Keep a bird from flying away.
(d) Sing.

5. What is NOT one of the ways in which Rumi writes, according to Barks in his commentary piece?
(a) For himself.
(b) For others.
(c) For no one.
(d) For glory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi asserts in his poems that "the miracle of ______ is himself, not what he said or did about the future."

2. Rumi asks the reader to let their _______ move them, playing music instead of reading as they go along.

3. Rumi slipped back into what ______ the Greek called the whole catastrophe as a living example of another possibility for life.

4. The poet speaks of happiness for an unknown reason, and it becomes easy to ______, though the joy is inexplicable.

5. Rumi states that "the human shape is a _______ made of distraction and pain, trying to open the image of itself."

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