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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. Rumi uses the metaphor of tilling the soil to plant trees and roses for the way that one breaks up the __________.
(a) Lessons one is taught.
(b) Truth.
(c) Soul.
(d) Love in one's life.

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

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

4. Rumi suggests that "sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own ________."
(a) Immensity.
(b) Smallness.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Love.

5. Rumi asks the reader to let their _______ move them, playing music instead of reading as they go along.
(a) Intuition.
(b) Truth.
(c) Friends.
(d) Soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. The story of Joseph focuses on the loss of his _____ of many colors that has false blood on it to convince people of his death.

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

3. "______ think they're looking for each other, but there's only one search: wandering the world."

4. The Egyptian woman that is in love with Joseph is known as _______, clings to his shirt and tears it from his back.

5. Rumi asks when seeing the birds flying in frenzied patterns whether the one he _______ is everywhere.

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