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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. When was the New Expanded Edition of this book published?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1965.

2. According to Rumi, how should one treat his or her baser nature?
(a) With severe strictness.
(b) Cautiously.
(c) With kindness.
(d) Passionately.

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

4. After reading Rumi's poems, Coleman Barks feels he has been:
(a) Comforted.
(b) Transformed.
(c) Discombobulated.
(d) Duped.

5. Who were Rumi's three main friends who inspired much of his poetry?
(a) Saladin, Ahmad, and Sherzi.
(b) Mehdi, Husam, and Malek.
(c) Amir, Shams, and Mohad.
(d) Shams, Saladin, and Husam.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Rumi's short-story poems range from less than fifty lines to approximately what length?

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

5. Who is Coleman Barks?

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