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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. Fullness _______ the soul, while emptiness frees it, according to the writing of Rumi in the poem.
(a) Depletes.
(b) Oppresses.
(c) Engages.
(d) Fills.

2. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."
(a) Moon.
(b) Son.
(c) Stars.
(d) Sun.

3. Rumi suggests that human beings are like "some weird kind of ______ that wants to stay melted in the furnace."
(a) Iron.
(b) Lead.
(c) Gold.
(d) Silver.

4. "Sufis adore the darkness of the deep night, like the blackness of the ______ cloth, when conversation with the divine is easiest."
(a) Temple.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Kaaba.
(d) Pillow.

5. 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) Child.
(b) Ant.
(c) Fly.
(d) Cow.

Short Answer Questions

1. A baby __________ hears a whistling and is thus driven to fly into the sky, according to Rumi.

2. Rumi wants the reader to know that embracing _________ transforms this into joy.

3. Rumi gives advice about how to deal with hardship, "The cure for the ______ is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed."

4. Rumi compares daily spiritual practice to continuing to knock at a ___________ to eventually contact the joy inside.

5. The __________ inside of its cocoon is the metaphor which Rumi uses in order to discuss a man's journey into himself.

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