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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through We Have Opened You.

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

2. Rumi suggests that "sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own ________."
(a) Love.
(b) Smallness.
(c) Immensity.
(d) Immortality.

3. Rumi realizes that in all of his searching, he has actually been waiting to be _________ as opposed to brought inside.
(a) Let out.
(b) Devoured.
(c) Believed.
(d) Destroyed.

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

5. __________ makes Rumi fierce and tender, according to his own admission in one of his poems.
(a) Truth.
(b) Love.
(c) Hate.
(d) Learning.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet says the he would die into _______, as clouds might disappear into the sun, according to his writings.

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

3. Rumi refers to the field that develops between the formless source and form ______ a personified image.

4. The ________ speaking scripture brings the dead students of scripture to life, according to Rumi.

5. Rumi speaks of the surrendering to __________ which brings light to all one's flaws, within one of his poems.

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