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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. Barks reminds the reader about how often ______ is used as a piece of advice for calming one's self.
(a) Praying.
(b) Chanting.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Walking.

2. Rumi slipped back into what ______ the Greek called the whole catastrophe as a living example of another possibility for life.
(a) Zappa.
(b) Zorba.
(c) Manos.
(d) Tabriz.

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

4. Barks points out that Shams believed that Rumi wrote in _________ ways when he wrote to teach others.
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Ten.

5. Rumi uses the metaphor of being sent to do a task by a King, and forgetting in the poem "The _____ Work".
(a) Hard.
(b) Fun.
(c) Easy.
(d) Real.

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

3. Since the reed was cut from the bed, it has made a ___________ sound, according to the description by Rumi.

4. Shams points out that what everyone is actually worshiping is ___________, rather than a higher being.

5. "Sufis adore the darkness of the deep night, like the blackness of the ______ cloth, when conversation with the divine is easiest."

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