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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. Anger is the main topic that Rumi explores in the poem entitled "A ______ Sky Hates the Moon."
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

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

3. Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the remote town of _______ in what is now Afghanistan.
(a) Balkh.
(b) Bestami.
(c) Anatolia.
(d) Konya.

4. Rumi met his companion Shams of _______ , described as a "street boddhisattva", in the marketplace.
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Bestami.
(c) Balkh.
(d) Konya.

5. When Rumi died, he was mourned by members of all of the following religious groups except _______.
(a) Christians
(b) Taoists.
(c) Muslims.
(d) Jews.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one of the poems Rumi states, "We are charlatans... or maybe just a ______ hair brush in a painter's hand."

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

3. Rumi was able to take all the usual existential issues that human beings face on a daily basis and change them to ______.

4. Rumi points out that while others are laughing and dancing, there are few who will hear the ________ hidden within the notes.

5. Rumi's poetry can be thought of as a conversation with _______, a discussion of what it is to be together in God.

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