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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) Get hung up on scriptures.
(b) Forget to feel with their hearts.
(c) Use scriptures against others.
(d) Are too ignorant to understand them.

2. The purpose of Coleman Barks' preambles to Rumi's poems is to:
(a) Add a new twist to the message of each poem.
(b) Get the reader to come up with his or her own judgments.
(c) Expand upon Barks' discomfort with each.
(d) Help the reader interpret each poem.

3. 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?
(a) The divine living in the human world.
(b) The master becoming the servant.
(c) The rational mind and the animalistic nature of mankind.
(d) The lack of pretense when one is self-confident.

4. In Book 2, Chapter 3, Ayaz is able to follow orders, but is also able to go beyond being just:
(a) A devoted husband.
(b) A simple follower.
(c) A naive cook.
(d) A crafty spy.

5. Rumi's short-story poems range from less than fifty lines to approximately what length?
(a) Two hundred lines.
(b) Two thousand lines.
(c) Ten thousand lines.
(d) A hundred twenty lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "Meadowsounds," Rumi devotes two lines to:

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

3. How long does it take before the town friend in "Town and Country" finally decides to visit his friend in the country?

4. Several of Rumi's poems in Book 2, Chapter 1 are about King Solomon and the Queen of:

5. What region in Afghanistan did Rumi come from?

(see the answer key)

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