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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 notes there is nothing worse than going to ______ without another person, the vague 'you.'
(a) Eat.
(b) Pray.
(c) Read.
(d) Walk along the street.

2. Rumi encourages the reader to be the __________ nearest the thorn that he is, according to his writing.
(a) Ivy.
(b) Bush.
(c) Holly.
(d) Rose.

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

4. Rumi describes a field, beyond right and wrong, where the ________ goes and loses ideas and language.
(a) Heart.
(b) Mind.
(c) Hand.
(d) Soul.

5. Rumi stops his list of things which he uses to describe a friend within his poem in order to ______________.
(a) Dance his dance.
(b) Keep a bird from flying away.
(c) Sing.
(d) Pray.

Short Answer Questions

1. Not doing the work God sent you for is the equivalent of "using a _____ bowl to cook turnips in.

2. The poet compares himself to a __________, stripped of its petals and of its leaves, within one of the poems.

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

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

5. Since the reed was cut from the bed, it has made a ___________ sound, according to the description by Rumi.

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