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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. In the poems about an unlikely friendship between two different animals, one of them being a frog, these two animals have very different what?
(a) Environmental needs.
(b) Life spans.
(c) Names.
(d) Sizes.

2. Rumi is considered a master at creating what?
(a) Discord.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Unity.
(d) Humor.

3. 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.

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

5. What is one of the central teachings of Rumi?
(a) The cultivation of love.
(b) The elimination of sin.
(c) The desire for power.
(d) The search for eternal youth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Hallaj?

2. In a poem in Book 2, Chapter 1, after a wise man feeds a poor man, what does he make the poor man do?

3. What does the smartest of three fish do in the fish tale in Book 2, Chapter 1?

4. As the bond of friendship that Rumi writes about between a frog and its animal friend grows, the two animals find that their wish for each other's company:

5. 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?

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