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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 uses agricultural images to express the idea that humans are God's precious crop in the poem "His Winter _____".
(a) Crop.
(b) Light.
(c) Harvest.
(d) Solstice.

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

3. According to the Islamic fundamentalist leaders, it was ______ to claim intimacy with the divine.
(a) Standard practice.
(b) Devout.
(c) Blasphemy.
(d) Rhetoric.

4. The poem "A Hunting Party" makes the suggestion that the search for spiritual nourishment should take place ______.
(a) As a family.
(b) Individually.
(c) As a couple.
(d) In a community.

5. Ladinsky suggests that Hafiz is on the same level as other luminaries including all of the following except _______.
(a) Francis of Assisi.
(b) Ramakrishna.
(c) Rumi.
(d) Lalla.

Short Answer Questions

1. Daniel Ladinsky describes Hafiz as a poet who has inspired some of the worlds greatest _______.

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

3. Hafiz describes God as a Golden ______ that takes the soul soaring in the poem titled "Lifts Beyond Conception".

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 was known to live in ______, and even now there are as many copies of his Divan as there are copies of the Quran.

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