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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Come Back, My Friend.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When asked how long he would remain in pain, Rumi answered that he was a _________ and his friend was the whole night.
(a) Moonbeam.
(b) Star.
(c) Student.
(d) Candle.

2. Shams asks Rumi who is greater, Muhammad the messenger of God, or ______ a mystic who claimed to be one with God.
(a) Konya.
(b) Tabriz.
(c) Bestami.
(d) Balkh.

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) Infinite.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Spiritual world.
(d) Loving.

4. Rumi refers to the field that develops between the formless source and form ______ a personified image.
(a) The friend.
(b) The father.
(c) The daughter.
(d) The mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet compares himself to a __________, stripped of its petals and of its leaves, within one of the poems.

2. Bawa lived alone in a ________ before beginning to teach in Sri Lanka in the 1940s before moving to Philadelphia.

3. _________ are the wandering Sufis who laugh and love at everything, but they are in turmoil inside.

4. Rumi suggests that human beings are like "some weird kind of ______ that wants to stay melted in the furnace."

5. The poet speaks of happiness for an unknown reason, and it becomes easy to ______, though the joy is inexplicable.

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