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

2. It is suggested in the fourth chapter that ______ is a transformer of perspective and character.
(a) Worship.
(b) Employment.
(c) Humility.
(d) Schooling.

3. In the poem "Curfews" ______ is the key to freedom that Hafiz offers to the reader.
(a) Remembrance.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Joy.
(d) Silence.

4. Hafiz refers to the process of growing in love and knowledge by making oneself a student of a master in these things "The _____ Work".
(a) Good.
(b) Important.
(c) Meaningful.
(d) Great.

5. In the poem, "_______" Hafiz describes the agony of shedding selfishness.
(a) Effacement.
(b) Embarassment.
(c) Atonement.
(d) Allotment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hafiz uses the image of all creation applauding in the warm gaze of God in the poem "Life Starts ______".

2. The poem "Some Fill With Each Good _____" encourages people to give their most intimate affection to those who requite it.

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

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

5. In the poem "We Have not Come to Take ________", Hafiz suggests that people run from those who threaten one's spiritual vision.

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