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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's short-story format found in some of his poems is characterized by:
(a) Bizarre characters.
(b) A complete, self-contained story.
(c) Angelic teachers.
(d) A mystical, mysterious story.

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

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

4. One of the messages of the poem about three brothers who fall in love with a princess in Chapter 2, Book 2, could well be concerning the importance of:
(a) Politeness.
(b) Hierarchy.
(c) Determination.
(d) Confidence.

5. Most of Rumi's poems presented in this book exhibit what form?
(a) Strict syllable counts.
(b) Light free verse.
(c) Rhyming verse.
(d) Formal repeating pattern.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "animal soul" that Rumi writes about?

2. What is a Caliph?

3. Whether writing about friendship, love, or God, a common theme covered by Rumi is:

4. When the man in a poem in Book 1, Chapter 2 accidentally soils himself, what does his host and friend do?

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

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