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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. Who is Reynold Nicholson?
(a) Scholar who attempted to translate some of Rumi's poems.
(b) Writer who wrote a complete biography about Rumi.
(c) Critic who disliked Rumi's work.
(d) Religious leader who quoted from Rumi's poems extensively.

2. Many of Rumi's poems are so personal that they help readers reconnect to what?
(a) Practical ideas.
(b) Their emotional centers.
(c) Childhood notions.
(d) Their analytical sides.

3. When the man in a poem in Book 1, Chapter 2 accidentally soils himself, what does his host and friend do?
(a) Evicts him from his home.
(b) Leaves for three days while his servants clean the home.
(c) Laughs loudly and humiliates the man.
(d) Launders the garments and helps the man feel better.

4. Rumi expresses himself in a way that is what?
(a) Repulsively simple.
(b) Mentally challenging.
(c) Emotionally integrated.
(d) Spiritually vague.

5. The poem "On Being A Lover" is written in what format?
(a) Recollection by an old man of his younger years.
(b) Diary entry of a man who has lost his lover.
(c) Question and answer session between a man and a woman.
(d) Song of lament by a woman who has lost her lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before responding to the king's command in a poem in Book 1, Chapter 3, what does Ayaz do?

2. 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?

3. In Coleman Barks' folklore introduction to the poems in Chapter 2, Book 2, what is placed inside the pockets of the dead man?

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

5. What elevates Rumi's poems beyond a simple collection of ideas?

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