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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through We Have Opened You.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _________ are the wandering Sufis who laugh and love at everything, but they are in turmoil inside.
(a) Quandaries.
(b) Qualudes.
(c) Qalandars.
(d) Qalans.

2. The poet compares himself to a __________, stripped of its petals and of its leaves, within one of the poems.
(a) Violet.
(b) Peony.
(c) Rose hip.
(d) Daisy.

3. Barks talks in his commentary about the mysterious "________" in the poem, though he defines it differently.
(a) Bird.
(b) You.
(c) Book.
(d) Color.

4. The poet speaks of happiness for an unknown reason, and it becomes easy to ______, though the joy is inexplicable.
(a) Laugh.
(b) Cry.
(c) Smile.
(d) Surrender.

5. The poet says the he would die into _______, as clouds might disappear into the sun, according to his writings.
(a) Love.
(b) Shams.
(c) Bliss.
(d) The moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi asserts in his poems that "the miracle of ______ is himself, not what he said or did about the future."

2. Rumi gives advice about how to deal with hardship, "The cure for the ______ is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed."

3. Rumi describes a field, beyond right and wrong, where the ________ goes and loses ideas and language.

4. Barks points out the use of the word "_______" in one of the poems to be intended for the end of a vigil.

5. Rumi notes that the miracle of Jesus is ______, not what he did or said about the future, according to the poems.

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