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

2. Rumi notes that everywhere a reader goes, they will perceive others as they themselves are, just as a _________ will ignore the amazing city of Baghdad.
(a) Ant.
(b) Child.
(c) Cow.
(d) Fly.

3. The _____________ who are there in the orchard do not matter, according to Rumi, along with the light and the wine.
(a) Teachers.
(b) Birds.
(c) Students.
(d) Sweethearts.

4. Joseph gives his Egyptian shirt to his ______ to lay over the eyes of Jacob, whose vision is then restored.
(a) Mother.
(b) Sisters.
(c) Father.
(d) Brothers.

5. When a man is approached by a person who wants to bring his reluctant cousin to a spiritual leader, what is used to convince the cousin?
(a) Fish soup.
(b) Money.
(c) A promise for truth.
(d) Prayers.

Short Answer Questions

1. _______ was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt , gradually came to power there, and made a complicated trade route.

2. Rumi advises the reader to disappear with the _________ each month and to bend like a tree limb.

3. Every day, Rumi says, people wake up with _________, but they need to continue to walk their spiritual path.

4. Rumi says that he does not regret love or passion, but owners everyone's __________, according to the writing.

5. Rumi challenges us to "work in the ______ world as hard as we do in the visible" and to "be a companion with the prophets."

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