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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. What does the smartest of three fish do in the fish tale in Book 2, Chapter 1?
(a) Eats a bug.
(b) Blows bubbles.
(c) Sleeps.
(d) Leaves.

2. In one of the poems in Chapter 2, Book 2, the girl that a king falls in love with becomes ill, which concerns him greatly. What does he do?
(a) Prays for her recovery.
(b) Asks a servant to make her some soup.
(c) Sends for a doctor.
(d) Sends her away.

3. In Rumi's string metaphor, the string connects two animals by their what?
(a) Ears.
(b) Ankles.
(c) Wrists.
(d) Necks.

4. Rumi lived during a time when brotherhood was expected between:
(a) Hindus and Muslims.
(b) Jews and Hindus.
(c) Christians and Jews.
(d) Muslims and Christians.

5. Much of Rumi's poetry is:
(a) Cryptic.
(b) Subdued.
(c) Passionate.
(d) Sarcastic.

Short Answer 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?

2. When King Solomon woos a queen in Book 2, Chapter 1, he asks that she do what?

3. In the book, Coleman Barks is the author of what?

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:

5. At the start of the group of poems in Book 2, Chapter 2, Coleman Barks gives an introduction that includes folklore from what religious tradition?

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