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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. Which readers might feel left out reading Rumi's poems?
(a) Older.
(b) Male.
(c) Female.
(d) Young.

2. In each of the love triangles presented in Chapter 2, Book 2, the woman's behavior:
(a) Changes with each story.
(b) Remains the same throughout all the stories.
(c) Saves the day.
(d) Is difficult to translate.

3. According to Rumi, how should one treat his or her baser nature?
(a) With severe strictness.
(b) With kindness.
(c) Passionately.
(d) Cautiously.

4. Who is Coleman Barks?
(a) Satirist.
(b) Scholar.
(c) Psychologist.
(d) Photographer.

5. What is a Caliph?
(a) Leader.
(b) Student.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi's works are deeply:

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

3. According to a poem in Book 1, Chapter 2, what happens when you put pond water into a larger body of water?

4. In the end, where does the Caliph of a poem in Book 1, Chapter 2 send the mysterious, beautiful woman from the city his men have invaded?

5. What does the smartest of the three fish fear, in the story in Book 2, Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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