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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi asserts in his poems that "the miracle of ______ is himself, not what he said or did about the future."
(a) Jesus.
(b) Muhammad.
(c) Gandhi.
(d) Buddha.

2. Rumi urges the reader to let go of the _____, the covering clothes, and to be naked in the world, according to his writing.
(a) Truth.
(b) Heart.
(c) Brain.
(d) Outcome.

3. According to the book, when Rumi realized the greatness of Shams, he fell off his _______ unconscious.
(a) Camel.
(b) Elephant.
(c) Donkey.
(d) Horse.

4. The writer continues to tell the reader to keep working, searching for __________ in the daily practice.
(a) Women.
(b) Love.
(c) Water.
(d) Answers.

5. Rumi sent his son _______ to bring back his exiled companion. He was found playing cards with the future St. Francis of Assisi.
(a) Sultan Veled.
(b) Solomon.
(c) Sultan Balkh.
(d) Moses.

6. According to the book, Rumi lived by the idea that _______ is the religion instead of being tied to a particular paradigm.
(a) Prayer.
(b) Abstinence.
(c) Love.
(d) Thought.

7. Rumi suggests that people listen to his message with the ear that is in the center of the _______.
(a) Forehead.
(b) Chest.
(c) Feet.
(d) Stomach.

8. "______ think they're looking for each other, but there's only one search: wandering the world."
(a) Family.
(b) Co-workers.
(c) Lovers.
(d) Friends.

9. In a poem, Rumi asks the lion of the ________ to roar and rend open the writer, according to the content of the poem.
(a) Bear.
(b) Horse.
(c) Lion.
(d) Tiger.

10. Love is more than an old study of _________, according to the writing of Rumi in this section.
(a) Religion.
(b) Sculpture.
(c) Honor.
(d) Art.

11. Rumi's mystical work was contained within the patterns of ______ Sufism but the life was witness to the boundless universality of the heart.
(a) Jain.
(b) Christian.
(c) Islamic,
(d) Buddhist.

12. The "___" is an illusion, according to Rumi, and this is why this part needs to be removed from the experience.
(a) Truth.
(b) I.
(c) Correctedness.
(d) Lesson.

13. Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the remote town of _______ in what is now Afghanistan.
(a) Bestami.
(b) Konya.
(c) Anatolia.
(d) Balkh.

14. ______ was killed on December 5, 1247, after being exiled and returning on several different occasions.
(a) Shiraz.
(b) Bestami.
(c) Moses.
(d) Shams.

15. Who is the spiritual leader who is approached in order to see how a person might be coaxed into learning?
(a) Rumi.
(b) Bawa.
(c) Ramakrishna.
(d) Shams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Not doing the work God sent you to do is like "pounding a _____ of the finest tempering to hang things on."

2. Shams asks Rumi who is greater, Muhammad the messenger of God, or ______ a mystic who claimed to be one with God.

3. Not doing the work God sent you for is the equivalent of "using a _____ bowl to cook turnips in.

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

5. Rumi asks the reader to let their _______ move them, playing music instead of reading as they go along.

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