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

2. Rumi lived during a time when brotherhood was expected between:
(a) Jews and Hindus.
(b) Muslims and Christians.
(c) Hindus and Muslims.
(d) Christians and Jews.

3. According to Rumi, people who choose from their own free will come from:
(a) Confusion.
(b) Immorality.
(c) Love.
(d) Fear.

4. In a poem in Book 1, Chapter 3, Rumi writes about a deer dying in the paws of a:
(a) Lion.
(b) Bear.
(c) Wolf.
(d) Tiger.

5. In a poem in Book 1, Chapter 2, several men invade a city because they are driven by what?
(a) A mad dictator.
(b) Greed and hate.
(c) Sexual attraction.
(d) Their egos.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to educating his listeners and readers, Rumi strives to:

2. Rumi indicates that people who have blind faith are following this path through what?

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. In one poem in Book 2, Chapter 1, Rumi uses the image of Jesus Christ riding atop a donkey to explain a lesson about what?

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