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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Solomon Poems : Chapter 3, New Section.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While acknowledging that scriptures can be good, Rumi also notes that too many people:
(a) Use scriptures against others.
(b) Forget to feel with their hearts.
(c) Are too ignorant to understand them.
(d) Get hung up on scriptures.

2. According to Rumi, when the individual ego disappears and dissipates into God, this can be understood as what?
(a) Cause for celebration.
(b) False.
(c) Cause for confusion.
(d) True.

3. Rumi expresses himself in a way that is what?
(a) Spiritually vague.
(b) Repulsively simple.
(c) Mentally challenging.
(d) Emotionally integrated.

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

5. In Book 2, Chapter 3, Ayaz cooperates readily in part because he feels:
(a) Threatened.
(b) Superior.
(c) Disposable.
(d) Appreciated.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one of the poems in Chapter 2, Book 2, what gift does a prisoner receive?

2. What does the smartest of three fish do in the fish tale in Book 2, Chapter 1?

3. Rumi's poetry gives us a glimpse of what?

4. Many of Rumi's poems reveal that life is not two-dimensional; on the contrary, it is very:

5. In addition to being one of his students and his scribe, Husam Chelebi was Rumi's:

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