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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. Lovers have to ________________, but they will find something of infinite value, according to the writing of Rumi.
(a) Fight with each other.
(b) Know the truth.
(c) Separate.
(d) Fall into a hole.

2. Rumi says to give up wanting what others hand and says that the day is a __________ day, according to his writing.
(a) Self aware.
(b) Sad.
(c) Joyous.
(d) Truthful.

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

4. 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) Invisible.
(b) Infinite.
(c) Loving.
(d) Spiritual world.

5. What images in the book does Barks say reflect the idea of openings within the world and in the poems?
(a) Cages.
(b) Doors.
(c) Birds.
(d) Windows.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet says the reader is what every religion intends, urging _______ from love and from weeping.

2. __________ is the character Rumi describes as a metalworker, making new shapes out of locks and chains.

3. Rumi describes a ______ that wakes up one day to discover that he is "the entire vineyard, and the orchard too."

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

5. In the poem "The Prophets" the people wonder "How long should we keep pounding this cold _____?"

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