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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The Tavern : Chapter 3, Union through Rough Metaphor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many of Rumi's poems are so personal that they help readers reconnect to what?
(a) Practical ideas.
(b) Their emotional centers.
(c) Their analytical sides.
(d) Childhood notions.

2. Rumi uses the metaphor of a string between two animals to represent what?
(a) Secret connections.
(b) Selective hearing.
(c) Imprisonment.
(d) Confusion.

3. When the animal soul Rumi writes about is in proper balance, it:
(a) Endangers the human.
(b) Brings about defeat.
(c) Disappears.
(d) Supports the human.

4. The poem "On Being A Lover" is written in what format?
(a) Diary entry of a man who has lost his lover.
(b) Song of lament by a woman who has lost her lover.
(c) Recollection by an old man of his younger years.
(d) Question and answer session between a man and a woman.

5. How did others regard Shams?
(a) They were jealous of the friendship between Shams and Rumi.
(b) They were concerned by the rivalry between Shams and Rumi.
(c) They felt he would make a benevolent ruler.
(d) They felt they could not completely trust him.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In the poems about an unlikely friendship between two different animals, one of them being a frog, these two animals have very different what?

3. Rumi speaks of two distinct types of intelligence. One is cultivated from books and the other is what?

4. Over time, Coleman Barks' feelings about the messages in Rumi's poetry have what?

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

(see the answer key)

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