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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poem "Some Fill With Each Good _____" encourages people to give their most intimate affection to those who requite it.
(a) Rain.
(b) Wind.
(c) Sun.
(d) Snow.

2. In the poem "The Ear That was Sold to a _____" Hafiz sends body parts with far-flung animals to spy on God.
(a) Cat.
(b) Bird.
(c) Pig.
(d) Fish.

3. In the poem "_____Hear Watchdogs" Hafiz describes the idea that true believers don't feel they have to trick God into blessing them.
(a) Lovers.
(b) Poets.
(c) B urglars.
(d) Theives.

4. The poem "A _____ Rim" describes his soul flying from him into heaven to sing with God.
(a) Gossamer.
(b) Golden.
(c) Glass.
(d) Crystal.

5. Hafiz is said to have devoted himself to a ______ day vigil at the tomb of a saint said to be able to grant the deepest desires of anyone.
(a) Forty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Fifty.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poem "This _____" describes unity with God as a place from which one must invite others to join in.

2. The poems "God Just Came Near", "The Sun Never Says", and "The Seed Cracked Open" use imagery from ______ to describe the connection to God.

3. Hafiz sometimes includes himself in his poems in the _______ person as a way of signing them.

4. God's dance is described by Hafiz as being the ultimate source of all movement in the poem "No _____".

5. Hafiz uses agricultural images to express the idea that humans are God's precious crop in the poem "His Winter _____".

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