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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. What is a Caliph?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Leader.
(d) Student.

2. What is the Mathnawi?
(a) Supreme counselor Rumi and other poets of his era turned to for guidance.
(b) The law of the land followed by Rumi and his contemporaries.
(c) Six volumes of poetry Rumi wrote when Husam Chelebi was his scribe.
(d) A code of conduct expected of scholars who studied directly under Rumi.

3. What is the "animal soul" that Rumi writes about?
(a) A concept that only young children comprehend.
(b) The guardian of the animal kingdom.
(c) The wilder, more instinctive part of a person.
(d) The spirit found within animals.

4. In the poem "Meadowsounds," Rumi devotes two lines to:
(a) Hallej.
(b) Husam.
(c) Ayaz.
(d) Shams.

5. Rumi indicates that people who have blind faith are following this path through what?
(a) Fear and compulsion.
(b) Greed.
(c) Animosity.
(d) Joy and willpower.

Short Answer Questions

1. In each of the love triangles presented in Chapter 2, Book 2, the woman's behavior:

2. In addition to being one of his students and his scribe, Husam Chelebi was Rumi's:

3. When speaking to the camel in the story in Book 1, Chapter 3, the mouse admits that it is what?

4. In the end, where does the Caliph of a poem in Book 1, Chapter 2 send the mysterious, beautiful woman from the city his men have invaded?

5. Along with the gift that the prisoner receives in one of the poems in Chapter 2, Book 2, what unexpected useful addition does he get?

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