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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi relishes things like walking, meditation, and fasting as they help to bring a person into ____________.
(a) The moment.
(b) The connection with God.
(c) A new love.
(d) Themselves.

2. When Rumi regained consciousness, he stated that _______ was the greater because he realized the breadth of God.
(a) Bestami.
(b) Muhammad.
(c) Balkh.
(d) Konya.

3. The ________ breath brings a presence, through the head to the heart, with a mantra, "God alone is real."
(a) Outward.
(b) Truth.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Inward.

4. Fullness _______ the soul, while emptiness frees it, according to the writing of Rumi in the poem.
(a) Engages.
(b) Fills.
(c) Oppresses.
(d) Depletes.

5. The destination may be unclear for __________ understanding, according to Rumi, but one should walk anyway.
(a) Better.
(b) Animal.
(c) Human.
(d) Childlike.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi notes there is nothing worse than going to ______ without another person, the vague 'you.'

2. ______ was killed on December 5, 1247, after being exiled and returning on several different occasions.

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

4. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."

5. Rumi challenges us to "work in the ______ world as hard as we do in the visible" and to "be a companion with the prophets."

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the metaphor Rumi uses when it comes to the black sky and the moon.

2. What will happen after the traveler's legs become tired during the journey?

3. What do Barks and Rumi have to say about the rhythms and the way that a person breathes in their life?

4. What happens after Joseph is sold into slavery by his brothers, according to the writings of Rumi?

5. What are the amazing things prophets have done, according to the writings of Rumi?

6. What doesn't matter in the midst of an orchard in the spring, according to the writings of Rumi?

7. What happens when you fast, according to the narrator of the poem, in one of Rumi's writings?

8. What will happen to a person's present life when they are going on a spiritual journey, according to the writings of Rumi?

9. Where do human beings sit, according to the writings of Rumi, when they are in a prison?

10. What is the real work of human beings, according to the writings of Rumi?

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