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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 being locked in a _________ and of someone who brings him good and forgives him.
(a) Tree.
(b) Thought.
(c) Jail.
(d) Room.

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

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

4. Since the reed was cut from the bed, it has made a ___________ sound, according to the description by Rumi.
(a) Joyful.
(b) Mysterious.
(c) Crying.
(d) Angry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi stops his list of things which he uses to describe a friend within his poem in order to ______________.

2. Rumi notes there is nothing worse than going to ______ without another person, the vague 'you.'

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

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

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

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