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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. Rumi's students saw ______ as a madman and he was eventually forced out of the area.
(a) Balkh.
(b) Bestami.
(c) Muhammad.
(d) Shams.

2. Rumi realizes that in all of his searching, he has actually been waiting to be _________ as opposed to brought inside.
(a) Destroyed.
(b) Believed.
(c) Let out.
(d) Devoured.

3. The Egyptian woman that is in love with Joseph is known as _______, clings to his shirt and tears it from his back.
(a) Nefertiti.
(b) Isis.
(c) Zulu.
(d) Zuleikha.

4. The _____ in which Joseph sits in darkness at the bottom of is recognized as a visionary place.
(a) House.
(b) Cellar.
(c) Well.
(d) Cave.

5. Rumi gives advice about how to deal with hardship, "The cure for the ______ is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed."
(a) Disease.
(b) Depression.
(c) Pain.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi uses the metaphor of being sent to do a task by a King, and forgetting in the poem "The _____ Work".

2. Rumi suggests that "sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own ________."

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

4. Joseph gives his Egyptian shirt to his ______ to lay over the eyes of Jacob, whose vision is then restored.

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

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