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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through There Is a Breathing.

Multiple Choice 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."
(a) Loving.
(b) Spiritual world.
(c) Invisible.
(d) Infinite.

2. Anger is the main topic that Rumi explores in the poem entitled "A ______ Sky Hates the Moon."
(a) Blue.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

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

4. ______ means the sun, and Rumi often referred to him in his poetry which he began writing after his friend's death.
(a) Solomon.
(b) Shams.
(c) Moses.
(d) Shiraz.

5. Rumi met his companion Shams of _______ , described as a "street boddhisattva", in the marketplace.
(a) Konya.
(b) Bestami.
(c) Balkh.
(d) Tabriz.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi compares daily spiritual practice to continuing to knock at a ___________ to eventually contact the joy inside.

2. Rumi suggests that people listen to his message with the ear that is in the center of the _______.

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

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

5. According to the book, the eye is for _______; the soul for joy. The head is for loving; the legs for running.

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