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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. The poet describes himself as being someone who wants little and who needs only a _____________.
(a) Prayer.
(b) Half a loaf of bread.
(c) Song.
(d) Piece of cheese.

2. Rumi describes a field, beyond right and wrong, where the ________ goes and loses ideas and language.
(a) Mind.
(b) Heart.
(c) Hand.
(d) Soul.

3. 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.

4. Rumi speaks of the surrendering to __________ which brings light to all one's flaws, within one of his poems.
(a) Truth.
(b) Love.
(c) Timelessness.
(d) Innocence.

5. The poet describes _________ appearing at the footsteps of his teacher, in one of his poems in this section.
(a) Flowers.
(b) Puddles.
(c) Books.
(d) Gold pieces.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi speaks in the poem mentioned in #157 about a _________ bringing him back to this lost connection.

2. The poet says that he is a letter to everyone around him, a letter which says, "_______" according to the poet.

3. Rumi asks the reader to make a __________, abhorring spiritual windowshoppers who are not giving fully of themselves.

4. Then, according to Rumi, the student felt love and became the __________ cast by the light of the teacher.

5. Rumi asks the reader to accept _________, as everything comes from a higher place, according to his writing.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rumi describe the idea of love in the last section of these poems?

2. What is essential in the windows of one heart to another, according to the writings of Rumi?

3. What does Rumi think that cow might experience when they are in Baghdad?

4. What do the Sufis think about love and about its ability to help people, according to the book?

5. What does Barks ask a reader to do in relation to being in a state of spirituality?

6. When Shams asks about if the drop stays still in the ocean, what does he tell Rumi to do?

7. What does Rumi say that he doesn't regret in his life, according to one of his poems?

8. What happened as a result of Zuleikha loving Joseph so much that he became everything to her?

9. Why does the poet say that it is not necessary to grieve, according to the writings of Rumi?

10. What does Barks say that openings are a place for, according to his commentary in this section?

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