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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The __________ is the reason for the praying, according to Allah, as Rumi recollects in one of his poems.
(a) Longing.
(b) Kneeling.
(c) Truth.
(d) Beginning.

2. The poets asks for a __________ to climb into the Friend, and the response is that this item is in the person's head.
(a) Swing.
(b) Rope.
(c) Ladder.
(d) Stairs.

3. The poet speaks of happiness for an unknown reason, and it becomes easy to ______, though the joy is inexplicable.
(a) Surrender.
(b) Smile.
(c) Laugh.
(d) Cry.

4. Barks points out that Shams believed that Rumi wrote in _________ ways when he wrote to teach others.
(a) Four.
(b) Ten.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

5. Barks asks the reader to be in a state of _______ instead of reading about it, to live the connection about which Rumi speaks.
(a) Devotion.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Study.
(d) Spirituality.

6. The ________ speaking scripture brings the dead students of scripture to life, according to Rumi.
(a) Stone.
(b) Book.
(c) Cloud.
(d) Teacher.

7. __________ in the presence, at the price of one's life, is a bargain, according to one of the poems of Rumi.
(a) Singing.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Kissing.
(d) Kneeling.

8. Rumi says that humans should explore the reality of ____________, the grittiness of the soul and not live in the ideal.
(a) Churches.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Books.
(d) God.

9. The poet says that he is a letter to everyone around him, a letter which says, "_______" according to the poet.
(a) Pray.
(b) Honor.
(c) Live.
(d) Love.

10. Anyone or anything that is loved reflects the lover's ____________, according to Barks in relation to the Sufis.
(a) Goodness.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Peace.
(d) Truth.

11. _________ are the wandering Sufis who laugh and love at everything, but they are in turmoil inside.
(a) Quandaries.
(b) Qualudes.
(c) Qalans.
(d) Qalandars.

12. Barks points out the use of the word "_______" in one of the poems to be intended for the end of a vigil.
(a) That.
(b) She.
(c) You.
(d) This.

13. Shams points out that what everyone is actually worshiping is ___________, rather than a higher being.
(a) Nature.
(b) An idea.
(c) Each other.
(d) A song.

14. __________ is the character Rumi describes as a metalworker, making new shapes out of locks and chains.
(a) Jacob.
(b) David.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Joseph.

15. Bawa lived alone in a ________ before beginning to teach in Sri Lanka in the 1940s before moving to Philadelphia.
(a) Mountain.
(b) Jungle.
(c) Igloo.
(d) Cave dwelling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi wants the reader to know that embracing _________ transforms this into joy.

2. When asked how long he would remain in pain, Rumi answered that he was a _________ and his friend was the whole night.

3. Rumi decided to answer that he wrote so much because no ________ came from the radiance inside of him.

4. Rumi uses the metaphor of tilling the soil to plant trees and roses for the way that one breaks up the __________.

5. The poet describes _________ appearing at the footsteps of his teacher, in one of his poems in this section.

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