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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hafiz studied under ______ another poet of great renown. He was taught poetry, chemistry, theology, nature and harmonious living.
(a) Lalla.
(b) Rumi.
(c) Attar.
(d) Saadi.

2. 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) Cattle.
(c) Names.
(d) Prisoners.

3. Hafiz sometimes includes himself in his poems in the _______ person as a way of signing them.
(a) First.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Third.
(d) Second.

4. Hafiz uses guests at a ______ party as object lessons in the poem "If God Invited you to a Party".
(a) Outrageous.
(b) Private.
(c) Drunken.
(d) Holy.

5. Chapter 21 opens with an invitation from God to dance in the poem "The God Who Only Knows ______ Words".
(a) Ten.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poem "____ You to My Body" describes Hafiz's desire to keep his students close and teach them all the time.

2. The relationship between teacher and ______ is so intimate that it feels like a marriage is the subject of the poem "I Want Both of Us".

3. Hafiz uses a misled fish to symbolize people experiencing the confusion of life in "Trying to Wear _____"

4. Hafiz's home city was one of the few to have not been ravaged by the invasions of the Mongols and the _______.

5. In the poem "_____ Wandering" Hafiz describes the whole of creation as being as fragile as the sprout under a large animal.

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