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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. The poem "A Hunting Party" makes the suggestion that the search for spiritual nourishment should take place ______.
(a) As a family.
(b) Individually.
(c) In a community.
(d) As a couple.

2. Hafiz encourages believers to make themselves sources of love and hope in the poem "Like a Life-Giving _____".
(a) Earth.
(b) Planet.
(c) Sun.
(d) Moon.

3. Hafiz is known for his attempts to free people through intimacy with the divine from the control of ______.
(a) Government.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Economics.

4. According to the Islamic fundamentalist leaders, it was ______ to claim intimacy with the divine.
(a) Devout.
(b) Rhetoric.
(c) Standard practice.
(d) Blasphemy.

5. According to Ladinksy, Hafiz's poetry has often been used in an ______ fashion, like astrology or the tarot.
(a) Columnar.
(b) Oracular.
(c) Vestibular.
(d) Vernacular.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within his poetry, Hafiz tells the reader that he is speaking _______ truths mean to free people to celebrate and revel in the divine.

2. In the poem "What do the _____ Birds Say" Hafiz uses the symbols of the illusory Earth falling away and the fullness of God opening like a ____ in his heart.

3. The poem "Some Fill With Each Good _____" encourages people to give their most intimate affection to those who requite it.

4. In the poem "I Have Learned so Much", Hafiz suggests that he is so _______ and freed that he can't even identify with a particular sex anymore.

5. Hafiz became a ______ master in his sixties after studying for decades and trying to win the heart of a local beauty.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the request Hafiz makes of believers in the poem, "Out of This Mess"?

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

4. What was so special about Shiraz where Hafiz grew up, unlike many of the other surrounding cities?

5. What does Hafiz believe about the power of God and his power in the world of men?

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

7. In "The Sad Game," what is the imagery which is being used to describe the theft done by guilt?

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

9. What is the ratio of copies of Hafiz's work in relation to the Quran in his own hometown city of Shiraz?

10. What is the point of the poem, "Some Fill with Each Good Rain," according to this translation of Hafiz?

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