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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. What was salient and peculiar about Rumi's father?
(a) He was afraid of horses.
(b) He spoke seven languages.
(c) He had visions.
(d) He had no facial hair.

2. When speaking of sugar and vinegar, Rumi notes that a spoonful of vinegar:
(a) Destroys a spoonful of sugar.
(b) Is more valuable than a pound of sugar.
(c) Cannot compare to the sweetness of a spoonful of sugar.
(d) Loses its potency in several pounds of sugar.

3. Rumi's short-story format found in some of his poems is characterized by:
(a) Angelic teachers.
(b) A mystical, mysterious story.
(c) Bizarre characters.
(d) A complete, self-contained story.

4. Who is Hallaj?
(a) Scholar who studies Rumi.
(b) Rumi's father.
(c) Character in Rumi's poems.
(d) Rumi's teacher.

5. In the poems where Rumi includes a frog as one of the main characters, there is a deep friendship that develops between this frog and a:
(a) Mouse.
(b) Bird.
(c) Cat.
(d) Fish.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In this book, the term "nafs" refers to what?

3. In the end, how does the King regard Ayaz in a poem in Book 1, Chapter 3?

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

5. Rumi expresses himself in a way that is what?

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