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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hafiz describes the hopelessness and lack of compassion that characterize people who have lost their way in the poem "Someone Untied Your _____".
(a) Elephant.
(b) Dog.
(c) Camel.
(d) Lion.

2. Hafiz encourages believers to make themselves sources of love and hope in the poem "Like a Life-Giving _____".
(a) Earth.
(b) Planet.
(c) Moon.
(d) Sun.

3. The poem "Looking for a Good Fish" uses the metaphor of shopping in the wrong markets and following _____ into deserts.
(a) Footprints.
(b) Water Buffalo.
(c) Camels.
(d) Dumb Animals.

4. Hafiz won the admiration of the Zoroastrian master ______ who said that Hafiz's poetry contains all the secrets of the spiritual path.
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(b) Jalaluddin Rumi.
(c) Tabriz.
(d) Meher Baba.

5. In the poem "We Have not Come to Take ________", Hafiz suggests that people run from those who threaten one's spiritual vision.
(a) Valuables.
(b) Prisoners.
(c) Cattle.
(d) Names.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poems in Chapter Three go deeper into the human psyche an use ______ lessons instead of universal truths.

2. Chapter one's poem's are more _______ and use imagery from nature, music, dining, fishing, hunting, etc.

3. Hafiz suggests that he has become so close to God and cleansed of the pain and longing in the poem "The Lamp That Needs no _____".

4. The poem "Removing the ______ From the Temple" describes any place where where is praying as the temple of God.

5. The poem "When the Violin" uses the image of the violin to represent a _____ freed to make music in God's hands.

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