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

2. Rumi instructs us to "consider what the prophets have done. ______ wore fire for an anklet, Moses spoke to the sea."
(a) Abraham.
(b) David.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Solomon.

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

4. The poets asks for a __________ to climb into the Friend, and the response is that this item is in the person's head.
(a) Rope.
(b) Ladder.
(c) Swing.
(d) Stairs.

5. Rumi talks to the reader about the desired kiss as the _________ coming up into the lips of a person.
(a) Respect.
(b) Soul.
(c) Lesson.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Not doing the work God sent you to do is like "pounding a _____ of the finest tempering to hang things on."

4. The poet asks the reader to give everything, not to dull the drum's noise with a __________.

5. There is beauty in every meeting or gathering, the presence of _________, of 'the Friend' in one of Rumi's poems.

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