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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The seventh chapter closes with praise of mediation in the poem "Let ______ Become Your Beautiful Lover".
(a) God.
(b) Life.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Thought.

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

3. In the poem "The Ear That was Sold to a _____" Hafiz sends body parts with far-flung animals to spy on God.
(a) Fish.
(b) Pig.
(c) Bird.
(d) Cat.

4. Hafiz sometimes includes himself in his poems in the _______ person as a way of signing them.
(a) First.
(b) Second.
(c) Third.
(d) Fourth.

5. In "The Seed Cracked Open", Hafiz describes the finding of the relationship with God to an opened ______.
(a) Seed.
(b) Window.
(c) Door.
(d) Flower.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hafiz asks the reader to forgive this illusory life for its painfulness in the poem "Forgive the _____".

2. In the poem "Muhammad's _____" Hafiz uses the metaphor of spider-web-weaving to describe finding God.

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

4. Ladinsky suggests that Hafiz is on the same level as other luminaries including all of the following except _______.

5. The opening essay gives the approximate dates during which Hafiz lived and states that he was a contemporary of _______.

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