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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Having demonstrated his ability as a poet, Hafiz won several positions including all of the following except ______.
(a) Poet laureate.
(b) Court poet.
(c) Teacher.
(d) College professor.

2. Hafiz encourages believers to make themselves sources of love and hope in the poem "Like a Life-Giving _____".
(a) Sun.
(b) Earth.
(c) Moon.
(d) Planet.

3. Hafiz describes the hopelessness and lack of compassion that characterize people who have lost their way in the poem "Someone Untied Your _____".
(a) Lion.
(b) Camel.
(c) Dog.
(d) Elephant.

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

5. Within his poetry, Hafiz tells the reader that he is speaking _______ truths mean to free people to celebrate and revel in the divine.
(a) Selective.
(b) Universal.
(c) Moral.
(d) Archaic.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is suggested in the fourth chapter that ______ is a transformer of perspective and character.

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

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

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

5. Hafiz uses agricultural images to express the idea that humans are God's precious crop in the poem "His Winter _____".

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