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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hafiz describes God as a Golden ______ that takes the soul soaring in the poem titled "Lifts Beyond Conception".
(a) Nightingale.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Sparrow.
(d) Dove.

2. Chapter one's poem's are more _______ and use imagery from nature, music, dining, fishing, hunting, etc.
(a) Light-hearted.
(b) Complicated.
(c) Heavy-hearted.
(d) Elegant.

3. In the poem "What the Hell" Hafiz is unable to contain his ecstatic love and decorates a girl's house with _____.
(a) Birds.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Poems.
(d) Flowers.

4. Ladinsky used the work of ______ published in 1891 to guide this particular translation of Hafiz's work.
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(b) Meher Baba.
(c) Henry S. Mindlin.
(d) H. Wilberforce Clarke.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The poem "A _____ Rim" describes his soul flying from him into heaven to sing with God.

2. Hafiz describes the unity of God and his worshipers in the poem "Laughing at the word _______."

3. Hafiz became a ______ master in his sixties after studying for decades and trying to win the heart of a local beauty.

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

5. Hafiz won the admiration of the Zoroastrian master ______ who said that Hafiz's poetry contains all the secrets of the spiritual path.

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