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

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

3. As the bond of friendship that Rumi writes about between a frog and its animal friend grows, the two animals find that their wish for each other's company:
(a) Is discouraged by their own kind.
(b) Diminishes over time.
(c) Turns into a need.
(d) Is laughed at by others.

4. In the story of a camel and a mouse found in Book 1, Chapter 3, what does the camel do when the two reach a body of water?
(a) Takes a bath.
(b) Runs away.
(c) Encourages the mouse to continue.
(d) Tosses the mouse into the water.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What post did Rumi inherit?

2. According to Rumi, how should one treat his or her baser nature?

3. What region in Afghanistan did Rumi come from?

4. How many years did it take Coleman Barks to truly comprehend Shams Tabriz through Rumi's poetry?

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

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