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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 9 opens with the poem "The Prettiest ______" in which human beings are compared to dumb herding animals.
(a) Mule.
(b) Sheep.
(c) Cow.
(d) Donkey.

2. The opening essay gives the approximate dates during which Hafiz lived and states that he was a contemporary of _______.
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(b) H. Wilberforce Clarke.
(c) Henry S. Mindlin.
(d) William Shakespeare.

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

4. Life itself, rather than religion is described by Hafiz as the way to finding God in the poem "The _____ of Existence".
(a) Beauty.
(b) Door.
(c) Stairway.
(d) Pathway.

5. Hafiz describes the situation of an insect and uses it to teach about compassion towards the weak in the poem "Courteous to the _____".
(a) Beetle.
(b) Cockroach.
(c) Ant.
(d) Grasshopper.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poem "Looking for a Good Fish" uses the metaphor of shopping in the wrong markets and following _____ into deserts.

2. Hafiz refers to the process of growing in love and knowledge by making oneself a student of a master in these things "The _____ Work".

3. In the poem "_____ God" Hafiz uses the imagery of a concert in the heavens and the tedious work of breaking God apart.

4. The poem "A Hunting Party" makes the suggestion that the search for spiritual nourishment should take place ______.

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.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the symbolism which is being used in "Please," according to this translation of Hafiz?

2. What happens to Hafiz in "I Hold the Lion's Paw," according to this translation of Hafiz?

3. What does Ladinsky have to say about his interpretation of Hafiz and what he did with the translation?

4. In "God's Bucket," what does the symbolism of the roaring ocean seem to say, according to this translation of Hafiz?

5. What is the message Hafiz tries to tell the reader in "Really Just a Tambourine," according to this translation of Hafiz?

6. What is the symbolism used to describe God in "Lifts Beyond Conception,"according to this translation of Hafiz?

7. What is being cultivated in the garden images as described in "Your Seed Pouch"?

8. What does Hafiz send with the animals in order to spy on God in "The Ear that was Sold to a Fish"?

9. In "I Rain," to what is Hafiz's poetry compared within the actions of nature and weather?

10. What is the shame of which Hafiz speaks in "Why Just Ask the Donkey"?

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