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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. Rumi uses the metaphor of a string between two animals to represent what?
(a) Secret connections.
(b) Imprisonment.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Selective hearing.

2. In a poem in Chapter 2, Book 2, what does the king discover about himself after the girl he loves receives medical attention?
(a) He's afraid of becoming ill.
(b) He's no longer in love with the girl.
(c) He's in love with the girl's doctor.
(d) He is incapable of true love.

3. At times the character Hallaj can be tender and loving, but other times he can be what?
(a) Abusive.
(b) Whiny.
(c) Clumsy.
(d) Insecure.

4. In a poem in Chapter 2, Book 2, how does the sick girl who has an "emotional thorn" and who is loved by a king get better?
(a) She is accepted by the man she loves.
(b) She is happy to be reunited with her family.
(c) She is healed by a questionable sorcerer.
(d) She is cured by costly medicines.

5. In a poem in Book 1, Chapter 3 involving a complicated love triangle consisting of a man and two women, Rumi explores what subjects?
(a) Love, jealousy, and fear.
(b) Humor and tragedy.
(c) Lust and disgust.
(d) Reconciliation, division, and uncertainty.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one of the poems in Chapter 2, Book 2, when the oldest son decides to romantically pursue a Chinese princess, what happens to him?

2. In a poem in Book 1, Chapter 3, Rumi writes about a deer dying in the paws of a:

3. In this book, the term "nafs" refers to what?

4. When the animal soul Rumi writes about is in proper balance, it:

5. Rumi's short-story poems range from less than fifty lines to approximately what length?

(see the answer key)

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