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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When one begins to break down, Rumi says this is _________ and a feeling of being outside of time.
(a) Fall.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

2. The poem at the start of this section describes the idea that human beings visit space through breaking one's ________ down.
(a) Self.
(b) Books.
(c) Study.
(d) Teacher.

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

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

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

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

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

8. The poet asks the reader to give everything, not to dull the drum's noise with a __________.
(a) Blanket.
(b) Rattle.
(c) Tear.
(d) Question.

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

10. Barks writes in the commentary that Rumi was asked once why we wrote so much since he valued ___________.
(a) Dance.
(b) Music.
(c) Truth.
(d) Silence.

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

12. When the poet talks about tearing down the ___________, he is talking about tearing down the self.
(a) Books.
(b) House.
(c) Wall.
(d) Rocks.

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

14. Then, according to Rumi, the student felt love and became the __________ cast by the light of the teacher.
(a) Peace.
(b) Witness.
(c) Shadow.
(d) Truth.

15. The poet says the reader is what every religion intends, urging _______ from love and from weeping.
(a) Calm.
(b) Order.
(c) Lessons.
(d) Madness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the game that Rumi and Shams played, according to Barks, which brought them closer together?

2. What is NOT one of the ways in which Rumi writes, according to Barks in his commentary piece?

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

4. The poet speaks of being locked in a _________ and of someone who brings him good and forgives him.

5. The poet asks the reader what caused a __________ to open and to consume them within their lives.

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