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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Solomon Poems : Chapter 2, Beginning to the Turn.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the bond of friendship that Rumi writes about between a frog and its animal friend grows, the two animals find that their wish for each other's company:
(a) Is discouraged by their own kind.
(b) Diminishes over time.
(c) Turns into a need.
(d) Is laughed at by others.

2. In addition to educating his listeners and readers, Rumi strives to:
(a) Admonish.
(b) Entertain.
(c) Surprise.
(d) Confuse.

3. What prominent themes are found in much of Rumi's work?
(a) Hate and separation.
(b) Love and unity.
(c) Marriage and divorce.
(d) Travel and loss.

4. In each of the love triangles presented in Chapter 2, Book 2, the woman's behavior:
(a) Saves the day.
(b) Remains the same throughout all the stories.
(c) Changes with each story.
(d) Is difficult to translate.

5. In the poem in Book 1, Chapter 2, where several men fall in love with the same woman, her physical beauty is really a representation of what?
(a) The passage of time.
(b) The illusion of happiness.
(c) Spiritual beauty.
(d) False hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi's short-story format found in some of his poems is characterized by:

2. Wanting to help the sick girl he loves, the king in a poem in Chapter 2, Book 2 decides to do what?

3. After the girl whom the king loves gets better in one of the poems in Chapter 2, Book 2, what does the doctor do?

4. What is the Mathnawi?

5. The poem in Book 1, Chapter 2 about a man who accidentally soils himself includes lessons on which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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