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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Solomon Poems : Chapter 1, Islam & Christianity in the Middle East.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi's poems focus on what aspect of life?
(a) Inner life.
(b) Life after death.
(c) Imaginary life.
(d) Life's sorrows.

2. In one of Rumi's stories in Book 2, Chapter 1, a man is healed by what?
(a) Rough and thorough discipline.
(b) Gentle, caring hands.
(c) Blind faith.
(d) Willpower and herbs.

3. Are Rumi's friends mentioned directly in his poems?
(a) No, in none of them.
(b) Yes, in all of them.
(c) Only in some.
(d) It is impossible to tell.

4. For Coleman Barks, part of the experience of grasping Rumi's poems is what?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Analytical.
(c) Impersonal.
(d) Transcendental.

5. Rumi wrote freely about various religious figures because he was familiar with them and:
(a) Comfortable with their teachings.
(b) Needed their teachings to support his images.
(c) Wanted to point out their flaws.
(d) Wanted to be diplomatic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were Rumi's three main friends who inspired much of his poetry?

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

3. According to Rumi, how should one treat his or her baser nature?

4. In one poem in Book 2, Chapter 1, Rumi states that every sheik rides a lion, whether that lion is:

5. After reading Rumi's poems, Coleman Barks feels he has been:

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