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

2. Rumi suggests not doing the work God sent you for is "like using a priceless Indian _____ to cut rotten meat."
(a) Hatchet.
(b) Knife.
(c) Spear.
(d) Sword.

3. Rumi describes a ______ that wakes up one day to discover that he is "the entire vineyard, and the orchard too."
(a) Snake.
(b) Bird.
(c) Ferret.
(d) Worm.

4. Rumi challenges us to "work in the ______ world as hard as we do in the visible" and to "be a companion with the prophets."
(a) Loving.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Spiritual world.
(d) Infinite.

5. From talking to a ______ to eating cabbage broth, Rumi says that the tasks of everyday life bring a person into a spiritual realm.
(a) Barber.
(b) Peasant.
(c) Spouse.
(d) Priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi's poetry can be thought of as a conversation with _______, a discussion of what it is to be together in God.

2. Rumi states, in "The Prophets" no one knows if the _______ will sink or reach the harbor.

3. Rumi's mystical work was contained within the patterns of ______ Sufism but the life was witness to the boundless universality of the heart.

4. In one of the poems Rumi states, "We are charlatans... or maybe just a ______ hair brush in a painter's hand."

5. Rumi met his companion Shams of _______ , described as a "street boddhisattva", in the marketplace.

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