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

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

3. In the end, what does the character Ayaz do in a poem in Book 1, Chapter 3?
(a) Refuses to obey the King.
(b) Obeys the King.
(c) Runs away.
(d) Hides in fear.

4. In this book, the term "nafs" refers to what?
(a) The part of the soul associated with desires.
(b) A food commonly consumed during Rumi's time.
(c) A style of poetry developed by Rumi.
(d) The highest state of enlightenment.

5. When the animal soul that Rumi refers to is lacking, it leads to what?
(a) Order.
(b) Wildness.
(c) Vigor.
(d) Frailty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Reynold Nicholson?

2. Many of Rumi's poems reveal that life is not two-dimensional; on the contrary, it is very:

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

4. 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?

5. When the animal soul Rumi writes about is in proper balance, it:

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