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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The beauty of _________ makes believers expect to hear the voice of God in "Reaching Toward the Millet Fields."
(a) Wine.
(b) Creation.
(c) God.
(d) Sunshine.

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

3. Hafiz uses the metaphorical activity of _______ in the poem "I am Full of Love Tonight" in which God is the lover and humans are the beloved.
(a) Horseback Riding.
(b) Holding hands.
(c) Sailing.
(d) Walking.

4. Hafiz wrote his poems in the ______ century. However, dignitaries throughout the ages since, including the Queen of England consulted his works.
(a) Sixteenth.
(b) Thirteenth.
(c) Fourteenth.
(d) Fifteenth.

5. In the poem "I Have Learned so Much", Hafiz suggests that he is so _______ and freed that he can't even identify with a particular sex anymore.
(a) Depressed.
(b) Silent.
(c) Solemn.
(d) Burned up.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the poem "What do the _____ Birds Say" Hafiz uses the symbols of the illusory Earth falling away and the fullness of God opening like a ____ in his heart.

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

4. The poem "Against my Own _____" sensuously describes the long-sought presence of God.

5. Hafiz contrasts his own humility with the wild majesty of his Message in the poem "This Talking _____".

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