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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's "story gets told in various ways" including all of the following except________. He recommends that others not get too close to him.
(a) A dirty joke.
(b) A romance.
(c) A funeral.
(d) A war.

2. Rumi notes there is only one search in the world: "___________ this world is wandering that..."
(a) Wandering.
(b) Living.
(c) Knowing.
(d) Breathing.

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

4. Rumi asks the reader to accept _________, as everything comes from a higher place, according to his writing.
(a) Injuries.
(b) Troubles.
(c) People.
(d) Lessons.

5. Not doing the work God sent you for is the equivalent of "using a _____ bowl to cook turnips in.
(a) Silver.
(b) Jeweled.
(c) Gold.
(d) Iron.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi slipped back into what ______ the Greek called the whole catastrophe as a living example of another possibility for life.

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

3. Who is the spiritual leader who is approached in order to see how a person might be coaxed into learning?

4. Rumi doesn't want "wealth and position." He suggests that in this matter he is "______ resisting the most enormous magnet there is."

5. Rumi states, in "The Prophets" no one knows if the _______ will sink or reach the harbor.

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