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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hafiz uses the image of all creation applauding in the warm gaze of God in the poem "Life Starts ______".
(a) Clapping.
(b) Smiling.
(c) Celebrating.
(d) Laughing.

2. Hafiz reveals his own _____ in asking for divine affection in the poem called "Mismatched Newlyweds".
(a) Despair.
(b) Boldness.
(c) Shyness.
(d) Arrogance.

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

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

5. 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) Thirty.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Forty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hafiz suggests that surrender is _____ in the poem "The Clay Bowl's Destiny" and is God's intent for life on earth.

2. The beauty of _________ makes believers expect to hear the voice of God in "Reaching Toward the Millet Fields."

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

4. Hafiz encourages people to live in such a way that God will identify with them in the poem "I Got ____".

5. The poems in Chapter Three go deeper into the human psyche an use ______ lessons instead of universal truths.

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