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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. Who is the madman that wields a knife, the thing which is a nihilist that embraces destruction?
(a) Trust.
(b) Truth.
(c) Love.
(d) Pity.

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

3. Not doing the work God sent you for is the equivalent of "using a _____ bowl to cook turnips in.
(a) Gold.
(b) Iron.
(c) Jeweled.
(d) Silver.

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

5. The poet says the reader is what every religion intends, urging _______ from love and from weeping.
(a) Calm.
(b) Order.
(c) Lessons.
(d) Madness.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poets asks for a __________ to climb into the Friend, and the response is that this item is in the person's head.

2. __________ in the presence, at the price of one's life, is a bargain, according to one of the poems of Rumi.

3. The poet describes himself as being someone who wants little and who needs only a _____________.

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

5. What is the game that Rumi and Shams played, according to Barks, which brought them closer together?

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