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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Come to the Orchard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From talking to a ______ to eating cabbage broth, Rumi says that the tasks of everyday life bring a person into a spiritual realm.
(a) Barber.
(b) Peasant.
(c) Priest.
(d) Spouse.

2. Those who do not wake to the truth, according to Rumi, are those who do not embrace the beauty of __________.
(a) Nature.
(b) Lessons.
(c) Light.
(d) God.

3. Rumi states that "the human shape is a _______ made of distraction and pain, trying to open the image of itself."
(a) Sphere.
(b) Circle.
(c) Bowl.
(d) Ghost.

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

5. Rumi notes there is nothing worse than going to ______ without another person, the vague 'you.'
(a) Pray.
(b) Read.
(c) Walk along the street.
(d) Eat.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Rumi asserts in his poems that "the miracle of ______ is himself, not what he said or did about the future."

5. Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the remote town of _______ in what is now Afghanistan.

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