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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. Relative to Rumi, who was Shams Tabriz?
(a) Cousin.
(b) Brother.
(c) Employer.
(d) Companion.

2. When the man in a poem in Book 1, Chapter 2 accidentally soils himself, what does his host and friend do?
(a) Leaves for three days while his servants clean the home.
(b) Laughs loudly and humiliates the man.
(c) Launders the garments and helps the man feel better.
(d) Evicts him from his home.

3. The poem in Book 1, Chapter 2 about a man who accidentally soils himself includes lessons on which of the following?
(a) Illusions.
(b) Strength and power.
(c) Release from shame.
(d) Self-control.

4. Rumi speaks of two distinct types of intelligence. One is cultivated from books and the other is what?
(a) Unattainable.
(b) Learned in the streets.
(c) Pre-existing within a person.
(d) Reserved for the highest masters.

5. 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?
(a) The illusion of happiness.
(b) The passage of time.
(c) Spiritual beauty.
(d) False hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which readers might feel left out reading Rumi's poems?

2. In the poem "Meadowsounds," Rumi devotes two lines to:

3. "Cry Out In Your Weakness" is a poem about:

4. Most of Rumi's poems presented in this book exhibit what form?

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

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