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

2. 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".
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

3. When God's lute begs for a _________ hands, that when this person is able to be useful to God, according to Hafiz.
(a) Teacher's.
(b) Child's.
(c) Saint's.
(d) Mother's.

4. In the poem "_____ Wandering" Hafiz describes the whole of creation as being as fragile as the sprout under a large animal.
(a) Camel.
(b) Rhinoceros.
(c) Elephant.
(d) Lion.

5. Hafiz suggests that sometimes God wearies of softly spoken love and he wants to shake his children by the shoulders in the poem called "Tired of Speaking _____".
(a) Softly.
(b) Generously.
(c) Sweetly.
(d) Harshly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hafiz uses the metaphor of a prostitute for God promising good directions in the poem "Turn Left ______ Feet From Here".

2. The poem "A ____ in Each Act and Creature" describes the life-giving and earth-beautifying of the sun as an expression of divine affection.

3. Hafiz describes people who don't know their own glory as "The Sun in ________" in one of his poems.

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

5. The relationship between teacher and ______ is so intimate that it feels like a marriage is the subject of the poem "I Want Both of Us".

Short Essay Questions

1. What is supposed to happen to all of creation, according to "Reverence," in this section of Hafiz's poems?

2. What does the title of "We Might Have to Medicate You" mean to the reader, according to this translation?

3. What happens within the poem and story in "Bring the Man to Me," according to this translation of Hafiz?

4. How are communing worshipers described in "When You Wake," according to this translation of Hafiz?

5. What is the warning to the reader in "A Hard Decree" according to this translation of Hafiz?

6. What happens to Hafiz in the poem, "Cupping My Hands Like a Mountain Valley"?

7. What does "What Should We Do About the Moon?" describe to the reader, from Hafiz's point of view?

8. What is so important for the reader to learn from the poem, "Stay Close to the Sounds"?

9. How is a poem described in "Sometimes I Say to a Poem" according to this translation of Hafiz?

10. What does a poem in the book say Hafiz has used in order to become a lamp which needs no oil?

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