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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. 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) Encourages the mouse to continue.
(c) Runs away.
(d) Tosses the mouse into the water.

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

3. Much of Rumi's poetry is:
(a) Cryptic.
(b) Passionate.
(c) Sarcastic.
(d) Subdued.

4. "Cry Out In Your Weakness" is a poem about:
(a) Punishment.
(b) Justice.
(c) Strength.
(d) Weakness.

5. Are Rumi's friends mentioned directly in his poems?
(a) Yes, in all of them.
(b) No, in none of them.
(c) It is impossible to tell.
(d) Only in some.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the central teachings of Rumi?

2. What main lesson does Rumi impart through his poem about a man who wants a tattoo in Book 1, Chapter 2?

3. Rumi's poems focus on what aspect of life?

4. Saladin of Zarkub was what?

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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