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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conclusion, Into the Soup.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi wants the reader to know that embracing _________ transforms this into joy.
(a) Hurt.
(b) Animals.
(c) Others.
(d) Books.

2. The poet asks a reader to imagine returning to the place from whence they came and imagine being greeted with _________.
(a) Honor.
(b) Wine.
(c) Dance.
(d) Song.

3. The poet says the he would die into _______, as clouds might disappear into the sun, according to his writings.
(a) Bliss.
(b) Shams.
(c) Love.
(d) The moon.

4. Rumi tells the reader to start __________ on their own personal journey to enlightenment, according to one of the poems.
(a) Walking.
(b) Skipping.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Crawling.

5. When Rumi died, he was mourned by members of all of the following religious groups except _______.
(a) Christians
(b) Muslims.
(c) Taoists.
(d) Jews.

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 poet compares himself to a __________, stripped of its petals and of its leaves, within one of the poems.

3. The _____ in which Joseph sits in darkness at the bottom of is recognized as a visionary place.

4. Rumi describes a ______ that wakes up one day to discover that he is "the entire vineyard, and the orchard too."

5. In the poem "The Prophets" the people wonder "How long should we keep pounding this cold _____?"

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