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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. Hafiz speaks to that moment one can sit in the pain of longing and listen intently to God in the poem "When you can _____".
(a) Listen.
(b) Hear.
(c) Endure.
(d) Love.

2. Chapter 21 opens with an invitation from God to dance in the poem "The God Who Only Knows ______ Words".
(a) Ten.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

3. In the poem "Why not be polite" Hafiz invites everyone to listen to those around them as if ____ were speaking through them.
(a) Hafiz.
(b) Attar.
(c) God.
(d) Saadi.

4. Hafiz describes people who don't know their own glory as "The Sun in ________" in one of his poems.
(a) Disguise.
(b) Drag.
(c) Water.
(d) Shadow.

5. Humanity is a fish on a _________ when it is separated from God, according to the final poem of the section by Hafiz.
(a) Horse.
(b) Flute.
(c) Camel.
(d) Tuba.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hafiz describes a change in a person that occurs when they are ready to surrender to God in the poem "My _____ So Soft".

2. "Spiced __________" describes the kind of sustenance that Hafiz offers in his poetry.

3. Hafiz suggests that he has become so close to God and cleansed of the pain and longing in the poem "The Lamp That Needs no _____".

4. _________ is the word for remembrance in which humanity best meditates on the qualities of God.

5. "The Tender Mouth" speaks of offering one's ___________ to Earth after death, as Hafiz describes it.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Hafiz seek to comfort in the poem, "You Were Brave in that Holy War,"according to this translation of Hafiz?

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

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

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

5. What is the surrender to which Hafiz refers in "The Clay Bowl's Destiny"?

6. Within "The Heart of Right, " Hafiz describes the rightness of mourning at what time?

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

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

9. What does the poem, "When You Can Endure" try to describe to the reader, according to this translation of Hafiz?

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

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