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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. The robe of the teacher creates _________, according to Rumi, and the teacher also creates new life.
(a) Music.
(b) Violence.
(c) Peace.
(d) Weather.

2. There is beauty in every meeting or gathering, the presence of _________, of 'the Friend' in one of Rumi's poems.
(a) Grains.
(b) Students.
(c) Love.
(d) Masters.

3. Rumi uses the metaphor of tilling the soil to plant trees and roses for the way that one breaks up the __________.
(a) Lessons one is taught.
(b) Love in one's life.
(c) Truth.
(d) Soul.

4. Who is the spiritual leader who is approached in order to see how a person might be coaxed into learning?
(a) Bawa.
(b) Shams.
(c) Ramakrishna.
(d) Rumi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. ______ means the sun, and Rumi often referred to him in his poetry which he began writing after his friend's death.

2. Rumi compares his soul to a drop in a spiritual _________ saying that it is always a certain season the human soul.

3. Every day, Rumi says, people wake up with _________, but they need to continue to walk their spiritual path.

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

5. The poet asks a reader to imagine returning to the place from whence they came and imagine being greeted with _________.

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