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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Comparing God to a Lion, Hafiz suggests that worshipers learn to hold the ______ paw.
(a) Untamed.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Clawed.
(d) Sweaty.

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

3. Hafiz became a ______ master in his sixties after studying for decades and trying to win the heart of a local beauty.
(a) Sufi.
(b) Zen.
(c) Zoroastrian.
(d) Shiite.

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

5. Hafiz uses the image of the ocean's defying gravity to symbolize a life in the supreme safety of "God's ______".
(a) Chalice.
(b) Bucket.
(c) Bowl.
(d) Well.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 9 opens with the poem "The Prettiest ______" in which human beings are compared to dumb herding animals.

2. In "The Seed Cracked Open", Hafiz describes the finding of the relationship with God to an opened ______.

3. According to the Islamic fundamentalist leaders, it was ______ to claim intimacy with the divine.

4. Hafiz uses the image of sunlight on a ______ to describe love in the poem "It Felt Love".

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

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