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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 uses the metaphor of being sent to do a task by a King, and forgetting in the poem "The _____ Work".
(a) Hard.
(b) Real.
(c) Fun.
(d) Easy.

2. When one begins to break down, Rumi says this is _________ and a feeling of being outside of time.
(a) Fall.
(b) Summer.
(c) Winter.
(d) Spring.

3. __________ is the character Rumi describes as a metalworker, making new shapes out of locks and chains.
(a) Jacob.
(b) David.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Thomas.

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

5. __________ in the presence, at the price of one's life, is a bargain, according to one of the poems of Rumi.
(a) Kneeling.
(b) Singing.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Kissing.

Short Answer Questions

1. "______ think they're looking for each other, but there's only one search: wandering the world."

2. Who is the madman that wields a knife, the thing which is a nihilist that embraces destruction?

3. Barks talks in his commentary about the mysterious "________" in the poem, though he defines it differently.

4. Rumi talks to the reader about the desired kiss as the _________ coming up into the lips of a person.

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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