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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. In this book, the term "nafs" refers to what?
(a) A style of poetry developed by Rumi.
(b) A food commonly consumed during Rumi's time.
(c) The highest state of enlightenment.
(d) The part of the soul associated with desires.

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

3. 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?
(a) To a monastery.
(b) Back to her family.
(c) Back to the captain.
(d) To another city.

4. In a poem in Chapter 2, Book 2, about a king who loves a girl, what does the doctor say is afflicting her?
(a) She wants to go home to her husband.
(b) She's in love with another man.
(c) She misses her parents.
(d) She's confused by the king's behavior around her.

5. In many of Rumi's poems, not only in Book 1, Chapter 2, but throughout the whole book, his distinction between "me" and "you" is what?
(a) Clear.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Solid.
(d) Vague.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem in Chapter 2, Book 2, about the king who loves the girl, what is Rumi's message about real love?

2. Rumi asserts that the union between a man and a woman has what associated with it?

3. In the folklore, Coleman Barks presents to introduce the poems of Chapter 2, Book 2, he writes about three men who teach others by:

4. In the poems about an unlikely friendship between two different animals, one of them being a frog, these two animals have very different what?

5. In a poem in Chapter 2, Book 2, what does the king discover about himself after the girl he loves receives medical attention?

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