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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 poem "Some Fill With Each Good _____" encourages people to give their most intimate affection to those who requite it.
(a) Sun.
(b) Rain.
(c) Snow.
(d) Wind.

2. Hafiz uses agricultural images to express the idea that humans are God's precious crop in the poem "His Winter _____".
(a) Light.
(b) Solstice.
(c) Harvest.
(d) Crop.

3. The poem "What do the _____ Birds Say" uses the symbolism of blooming nature to describe the blossoming revelation of God.
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

4. According to Ladinsky, Hafiz wrote between _______ poems, some of which were destroyed by fundamentalist Islamic leaders.
(a) 300-500.
(b) 30-50.
(c) 500-700.
(d) 50-70.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The poem "Removing the ______ From the Temple" describes any place where where is praying as the temple of God.

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

3. In the poem "_____ Man" Hafiz describes the work of refining character without breaking it.

4. In the poem "What do the _____ Birds Say" Hafiz uses the symbols of the illusory Earth falling away and the fullness of God opening like a ____ in his heart.

5. One of the major themes of the poems in the seventh chapter is discerning _____ from counterfeit.

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