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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) Inner.
(b) Outer.
(c) Lower.
(d) Surface.

2. Rumi sent his son _______ to bring back his exiled companion. He was found playing cards with the future St. Francis of Assisi.
(a) Sultan Balkh.
(b) Moses.
(c) Sultan Veled.
(d) Solomon.

3. ______ was killed on December 5, 1247, after being exiled and returning on several different occasions.
(a) Bestami.
(b) Shams.
(c) Moses.
(d) Shiraz.

4. In one of the poems Rumi states, "We are charlatans... or maybe just a ______ hair brush in a painter's hand."
(a) Dog's.
(b) Goat's.
(c) Camel's.
(d) Horse's.

5. The Egyptian woman that is in love with Joseph is known as _______, clings to his shirt and tears it from his back.
(a) Zuleikha.
(b) Zulu.
(c) Nefertiti.
(d) Isis.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, Rumi lived by the idea that _______ is the religion instead of being tied to a particular paradigm.

2. Rumi's students saw ______ as a madman and he was eventually forced out of the area.

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

4. Joseph gives his Egyptian shirt to his ______ to lay over the eyes of Jacob, whose vision is then restored.

5. _______ was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt , gradually came to power there, and made a complicated trade route.

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