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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Solomon Poems : Chapter 1, Islam & Christianity in the Middle East.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened after Shams disappeared a second time?
(a) He fell off a cliff.
(b) He married and had five children.
(c) He never came back.
(d) He went to work for another school.

2. One of the key attributes of the character Ayaz is what?
(a) A fear of nearly everything.
(b) A tendency to lie.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Loyalty.

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) Is laughed at by others.
(c) Diminishes over time.
(d) Turns into a need.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When speaking to the camel in the story in Book 1, Chapter 3, the mouse admits that it is what?

2. Rumi wrote freely about various religious figures because he was familiar with them and:

3. Rumi uses the metaphor of a string between two animals to represent what?

4. How many additional poems were translated and included in the New Expanded Edition?

5. The poem in Book 1, Chapter 3 about the lame goat teaches readers how to be good:

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