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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. Rumi notes there is only one search in the world: "___________ this world is wandering that..."
(a) Wandering.
(b) Knowing.
(c) Living.
(d) Breathing.

2. Rumi stops his list of things which he uses to describe a friend within his poem in order to ______________.
(a) Sing.
(b) Dance his dance.
(c) Pray.
(d) Keep a bird from flying away.

3. Rumi challenges us to "work in the ______ world as hard as we do in the visible" and to "be a companion with the prophets."
(a) Spiritual world.
(b) Infinite.
(c) Invisible.
(d) Loving.

4. Rumi suggests not doing the work God sent you for is "like using a priceless Indian _____ to cut rotten meat."
(a) Sword.
(b) Hatchet.
(c) Knife.
(d) Spear.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Not doing the work God sent you for is the equivalent of "using a _____ bowl to cook turnips in.

2. Rumi states, in "The Prophets" no one knows if the _______ will sink or reach the harbor.

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

4. It is essential, according to Rumi, to know of the __________, which may sometimes be open and sometimes closed.

5. Anyone or anything that is loved reflects the lover's ____________, according to Barks in relation to the Sufis.

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