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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Ladinsky, Hafiz was the youngest child of the family having _____ older brothers.
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

3. The poem "A ______ Feather" is used to describe the process of going through flawed spiritual understanding before spiritual maturity.
(a) Light.
(b) Colored.
(c) Strange.
(d) Bright.

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

5. The poems in Chapter Three go deeper into the human psyche an use ______ lessons instead of universal truths.
(a) Subject.
(b) Introject.
(c) Object.
(d) Project.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter two, Hafiz's poems portray him as a kind of _______ using his own experiences to offer wisdom.

3. Hafiz refers to the process of growing in love and knowledge by making oneself a student of a master in these things "The _____ Work".

4. Hafiz uses guests at a ______ party as object lessons in the poem "If God Invited you to a Party".

5. Hafiz uses the image of the ocean's defying gravity to symbolize a life in the supreme safety of "God's ______".

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