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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 eighth chapter opens with the poem "Get the Blame Straight" granting humanity the right to blame and ____ God for everything.
(a) Credit.
(b) Rebel against.
(c) Criticize.
(d) Denounce.

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

3. Chapter 7 opens with the poem "Really Just a ______" in which Hafiz suggests everything is God's musical instrument.
(a) Tamborine.
(b) Flute.
(c) Drum.
(d) Violin.

4. Hafiz describes God as a Golden ______ that takes the soul soaring in the poem titled "Lifts Beyond Conception".
(a) Dove.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Nightingale.
(d) Sparrow.

5. Hafiz describes the unity of God and his worshipers in the poem "Laughing at the word _______."
(a) Many.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The poem "Against my Own _____" sensuously describes the long-sought presence of God.

3. Hafiz became a ______ master in his sixties after studying for decades and trying to win the heart of a local beauty.

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

5. Hafiz instructs people to learn to see cause to celebrate even the mundane in the poem "If the Falling of a _____"

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