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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Solomon Poems : Chapter 2, Beginning to the Turn.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Many of Rumi's poems reveal that life is not two-dimensional; on the contrary, it is very:
(a) Unfair.
(b) Boring.
(c) Complex.
(d) Flat.

3. What happens when the Caliph meets a beautiful, mysterious woman from the city his men have invaded, in a poem in Book 1, Chapter 2?
(a) He regrets his actions.
(b) He falls in love with her.
(c) One of his men attacks him.
(d) The woman attacks him.

4. How many years did it take Coleman Barks to truly comprehend Shams Tabriz through Rumi's poetry?
(a) 37.
(b) 15.
(c) 6.
(d) 28.

5. How many additional poems were translated and included in the New Expanded Edition?
(a) 92.
(b) 58.
(c) 81.
(d) 23.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. "Cry Out In Your Weakness" is a poem about:

3. What prominent themes are found in much of Rumi's work?

4. One of the key attributes of the character Ayaz is what?

5. Rumi speaks of two distinct types of intelligence. One is cultivated from books and the other is what?

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