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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Love Lifts Me" is the response of the _________ who can defy gravity and gloom, according to Hafiz.
(a) Child.
(b) God.
(c) Bird.
(d) Woman.

2. Hafiz uses the metaphorical activity of _______ in the poem "I am Full of Love Tonight" in which God is the lover and humans are the beloved.
(a) Walking.
(b) Sailing.
(c) Horseback Riding.
(d) Holding hands.

3. Daniel Ladinsky describes Hafiz as a poet who has inspired some of the worlds greatest _______.
(a) Playwrights.
(b) Poets.
(c) Writers.
(d) Musicians.

4. Hafiz is said to have devoted himself to a ______ day vigil at the tomb of a saint said to be able to grant the deepest desires of anyone.
(a) Sixty.
(b) Forty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Thirty.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The final poem of chapter ten is called "Too ______ " and describes the bliss of unity that Hafiz experiences.

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

4. The poem "Love is the Funeral Pyre" returns to the idea of burning away all that is ______.

5. Hafiz admits to there being a lot of challenge in the business of __________, according to one of his poems.

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