View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Hafiz is so cleansed and finished by love, he becomes ___________ personified, ready to be consumed.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Honor.
(d) Truth.

2. In the poem "Out of God's _____" Hafiz uses imagery from nature to describe himself as a carrier of God's blessings.
(a) Coat.
(b) Hat.
(c) Shoe.
(d) Glove.

3. 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) Hit.
(b) Laugh at.
(c) Sue.
(d) Kill.

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

5. Who is getting ready for a cosmic celebration in "Then Winks" by Hafiz?
(a) Hafiz.
(b) Snake.
(c) Cockroach.
(d) Rabbit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hafiz refers to the things he will leave behind that he strove to be a steward for in the poem "Who Will Feed my _____".

2. Hafiz uses a parrot as a metaphor to describe teachers with no _____ in the poem "The Diamond Takes Shape".

3. Hafiz contrasts his own humility with the wild majesty of his Message in the poem "This Talking _____".

4. The first poem of Chapter 13 "______" suggests that everything in creation is part of God's body and so deserves to be revered.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is Hafiz speaking to in the poem, "Becoming Human," according to this translation of Hafiz?

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

6. What does Hafiz encourage the reader to do once they bail out from churches, according to this translation of Hafiz?

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

8. What is the reminder that Hafiz presents to the reader in "Now is the Time, " according to this translation of Hafiz?

9. What is God symbolized as in "Lousy at Math," according to this translation of Hafiz?

10. What is the metaphor that Hafiz uses in "Turn Left a Thousand Feet from Here"?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 620 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample