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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A person will be swallowed up by __________ if he does not find joyful work, according to Hafiz.
(a) Their ego.
(b) The waters.
(c) The world.
(d) A book.

2. What does Hafiz encourage people to let go of when he is writing his poem, "Find a Better Job"?
(a) Stability.
(b) Money.
(c) Peace.
(d) Worry.

3. Hafiz is a __________ ready to be eaten in the poem, "Throw Me on a Scale" in this collection of poetry.
(a) Fish.
(b) Lobster.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Cow.

4. Hafiz discusses the experience of falling out of trust with God and then moving towards trusting again in the poem "A Still ____".
(a) Tree.
(b) Cup.
(c) Mind.
(d) Pool.

5. Chapter one's poem's are more _______ and use imagery from nature, music, dining, fishing, hunting, etc.
(a) Elegant.
(b) Complicated.
(c) Heavy-hearted.
(d) Light-hearted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hafiz uses the image of God as the ocean and anger is the thing that sinks men's boats in the poem called "The Great _____".

2. The poem "Where Great ______ Love to Piss" talks about the folly of building temples instead of just worshiping in nature.

3. In the poem "The Old _____", Hafiz suggests that people regard each other with the gentle care the instrumentalist gives to his instruments.

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

5. Hafiz describes the ecstatic experience of his teacher's revelations of truth using the image of falling out of the windows in the poem "A _____ -Story House".

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