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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ladinsky, Hafiz was the youngest child of the family having _____ older brothers.
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

2. When a person does not understand the proximity of God in his life, Hafiz says he might have to ___________ them.
(a) Revive.
(b) Kill.
(c) Medicate.
(d) Ignore.

3. Hafiz encourages people to bail from churches and cling to the lifeboats of poetry in the poem "The Great _____".
(a) Religions.
(b) Travesties.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Lie.

4. In the poem "What the Hell" Hafiz is unable to contain his ecstatic love and decorates a girl's house with _____.
(a) Pictures.
(b) Birds.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Poems.

5. Hafiz explains that his purpose in writing is to put words to the longing of human hearts in the poem "I Hope You Won't _____ This Old Man".
(a) Kill.
(b) Sue.
(c) Laugh at.
(d) Hit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hafiz asks people to give the love humans habitually request from other people in the poem "With That _____ Language".

2. In Chapter two, Hafiz's poems portray him as a kind of _______ using his own experiences to offer wisdom.

3. In the poem "That Shapes the ______", Hafiz the purity and easy happiness of youth and the benefits of focusing on God in age.

4. The seventh chapter closes with praise of mediation in the poem "Let ______ Become Your Beautiful Lover".

5. Hafiz describes the pain of seeing a decrease in love or understanding in the world in the poem "The ____ is Right".

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