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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. Joseph gives his Egyptian shirt to his ______ to lay over the eyes of Jacob, whose vision is then restored.
(a) Sisters.
(b) Mother.
(c) Brothers.
(d) Father.

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

3. Rumi describes the journey a person must make as drinking ______ like water and eating sunset, in his poems.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Moonshine.
(c) Truth.
(d) Dawn.

4. Rumi notes there is only one search in the world: "___________ this world is wandering that..."
(a) Knowing.
(b) Breathing.
(c) Living.
(d) Wandering.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi states "This _____ began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place I will be completely sober."

2. The story of Joseph focuses on the loss of his _____ of many colors that has false blood on it to convince people of his death.

3. Rumi's "story gets told in various ways" including all of the following except________. He recommends that others not get too close to him.

4. When Rumi regained consciousness, he stated that _______ was the greater because he realized the breadth of God.

5. Love is more than an old study of _________, according to the writing of Rumi in this section.

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