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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "On Joy and Sorrow".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the person who asks about giving?
(a) A rich man
(b) A dying elder
(c) A new mother
(d) A poet

2. When are people balanced between joy and sorrow?
(a) Only when dead
(b) Only when married
(c) Only when happy
(d) Only when empty

3. Recipients should assume no weight of ____________, which is heavy on both, but rather soar alongside the giver.
(a) Reciprocation.
(b) Burdens.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Gratitude.

4. Work is _______ made visible.
(a) Calm
(b) Gratitude
(c) Life
(d) Love

5. Working with love binds people to themselves and to _______.
(a) God.
(b) Their muscles
(c) Sainthood
(d) Their money

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks Almustafa about children?

2. What should one meditate on?

3. Children's souls dwell in the house of _______________.

4. One must laugh and weep, but empty one's self to ___________?

5. Love seeks only to _______ itself.

(see the answer key)

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