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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. _________, according to Rumi, will tend to accumulate while the real work is going on elsewhere.
(a) Connections.
(b) Truths.
(c) Trust.
(d) Coins.

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

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

4. The _________ represents the imagination where the spiritual journey takes place, according to Rumi.
(a) Ocean.
(b) Closet.
(c) Cave.
(d) Orchard.

5. What is NOT one of the ways in which Rumi writes, according to Barks in his commentary piece?
(a) For no one.
(b) For himself.
(c) For glory.
(d) For others.

Short Answer Questions

1. The writer continues to tell the reader to keep working, searching for __________ in the daily practice.

2. Rumi asks the reader to make a __________, abhorring spiritual windowshoppers who are not giving fully of themselves.

3. Rumi urges the reader to let go of the _____, the covering clothes, and to be naked in the world, according to his writing.

4. From talking to a ______ to eating cabbage broth, Rumi says that the tasks of everyday life bring a person into a spiritual realm.

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

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