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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. "______ think they're looking for each other, but there's only one search: wandering the world."
(a) Family.
(b) Friends.
(c) Lovers.
(d) Co-workers.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The _____________ who are there in the orchard do not matter, according to Rumi, along with the light and the wine.

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

3. The story of Joseph focuses on the loss of his _____ of many colors that has false blood on it to convince people of his death.

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

5. Those who do not wake to the truth, according to Rumi, are those who do not embrace the beauty of __________.

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