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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) Outrageous.
(d) Holy.

2. Chapter one's poem's are more _______ and use imagery from nature, music, dining, fishing, hunting, etc.
(a) Heavy-hearted.
(b) Elegant.
(c) Complicated.
(d) Light-hearted.

3. According to Ladinksy, Hafiz's poetry has often been used in an ______ fashion, like astrology or the tarot.
(a) Vernacular.
(b) Columnar.
(c) Vestibular.
(d) Oracular.

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) Fifteenth.
(c) Fourteenth.
(d) Thirteenth.

5. 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) Egyptians.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Tartars.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poem "This Sane Idea" asks that people leave their ______ behind when going on the search for God.

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

3. The poem "Looking for a Good Fish" uses the metaphor of shopping in the wrong markets and following _____ into deserts.

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

5. In the poem "That Shapes the ______", Hafiz the purity and easy happiness of youth and the benefits of focusing on God in age.

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