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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The Tavern : Chapter 2, Desire & New Silk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the New Expanded Edition of this book published?
(a) 1980.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1995.

2. Saladin of Zarkub was what?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Barber.
(c) Brick maker.
(d) Goldsmith.

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

4. 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) Life spans.
(b) Environmental needs.
(c) Names.
(d) Sizes.

5. The poem in Book 1, Chapter 2 about a man who accidentally soils himself includes lessons on which of the following?
(a) Release from shame.
(b) Illusions.
(c) Strength and power.
(d) Self-control.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rumi, when the individual ego disappears and dissipates into God, this can be understood as what?

2. How many additional poems were translated and included in the New Expanded Edition?

3. When Coleman Barks first started reading Rumi's works, what types of words turned him away?

4. What post did Rumi inherit?

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

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