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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hafiz's home city was one of the few to have not been ravaged by the invasions of the Mongols and the _______.
(a) Romans.
(b) Greeks.
(c) Tartars.
(d) Egyptians.

2. Hafiz is known for his attempts to free people through intimacy with the divine from the control of ______.
(a) Religion.
(b) Government.
(c) Ethics.
(d) Economics.

3. The opening essay gives the approximate dates during which Hafiz lived and states that he was a contemporary of _______.
(a) Henry S. Mindlin.
(b) H. Wilberforce Clarke.
(c) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(d) William Shakespeare.

4. In the chapter's closing poem "That Magnificent ______", Hafiz compares himself to a cypress.
(a) Tree.
(b) Rainbow.
(c) Being.
(d) Storm.

5. The poem "Startled by God" uses the image of _____ startled by a broken stick.
(a) Birds.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Deer.
(d) Pigs.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ladinsky, Hafiz was the youngest child of the family having _____ older brothers.

2. According to Ladinsky, Hafiz wrote between _______ poems, some of which were destroyed by fundamentalist Islamic leaders.

3. In the poem "The Ear That was Sold to a _____" Hafiz sends body parts with far-flung animals to spy on God.

4. In the poem "Curfews" ______ is the key to freedom that Hafiz offers to the reader.

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

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