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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 slipped back into what ______ the Greek called the whole catastrophe as a living example of another possibility for life.
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Zappa.
(c) Manos.
(d) Zorba.

2. In the poem "The Prophets" the people wonder "How long should we keep pounding this cold _____?"
(a) Lead.
(b) Gold.
(c) Silver.
(d) Iron.

3. Sufis are loved the world over for reminding us that the glory is our ______ reality and the opposite is a kind of language for expressing it.
(a) Surface.
(b) Inner.
(c) Lower.
(d) Outer.

4. When Rumi regained consciousness, he stated that _______ was the greater because he realized the breadth of God.
(a) Konya.
(b) Muhammad.
(c) Balkh.
(d) Bestami.

5. Rumi doesn't want "wealth and position." He suggests that in this matter he is "______ resisting the most enormous magnet there is."
(a) Silver.
(b) Steel.
(c) Iron.
(d) Gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. The _________ represents the imagination where the spiritual journey takes place, according to Rumi.

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

3. Rumi states that "the human shape is a _______ made of distraction and pain, trying to open the image of itself."

4. ______ was killed on December 5, 1247, after being exiled and returning on several different occasions.

5. Rumi notes that the miracle of Jesus is ______, not what he did or said about the future, according to the poems.

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