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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 was salient and peculiar about Rumi's father?
(a) He had no facial hair.
(b) He was afraid of horses.
(c) He spoke seven languages.
(d) He had visions.

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

3. What region in Afghanistan did Rumi come from?
(a) Zari.
(b) Chimtal.
(c) Balkh.
(d) Kaldar.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poems where Rumi includes a frog as one of the main characters, there is a deep friendship that develops between this frog and a:

2. Islam originated with:

3. 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?

4. Saladin of Zarkub was what?

5. 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:

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