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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Path of Blame.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Every day, Rumi says, people wake up with _________, but they need to continue to walk their spiritual path.
(a) Disbelief.
(b) Joy.
(c) Fear.
(d) Rapture.

2. Whose table is spread with better food when a person fasts, according to Rumi?
(a) Jehovah's.
(b) Allah's.
(c) Jesus'.
(d) Muhammad's.

3. In one poem, Rumi begins to describe two lovers who are ___________ and drinking water.
(a) Dancing.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Singing.
(d) Walking.

4. Rumi asks the reader to make a __________, abhorring spiritual windowshoppers who are not giving fully of themselves.
(a) Commitment.
(b) Book.
(c) Blood oath.
(d) Prayer.

5. The man compares himself to a __________ in the sunrise, saying that he is lost in his lover's reflection.
(a) Diamond.
(b) Emerald.
(c) Sapphire.
(d) Ruby.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi was able to take all the usual existential issues that human beings face on a daily basis and change them to ______.

2. Rumi uses the metaphor of being sent to do a task by a King, and forgetting in the poem "The _____ Work".

3. Rumi encourages the reader to be the __________ nearest the thorn that he is, according to his writing.

4. The _____ in which Joseph sits in darkness at the bottom of is recognized as a visionary place.

5. Rumi suggests that human beings are like "some weird kind of ______ that wants to stay melted in the furnace."

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