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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Whole Catastrophe.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Rumi was able to take all the usual existential issues that human beings face on a daily basis and change them to ______.
(a) Light.
(b) Lessons.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Poetry.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi's students saw ______ as a madman and he was eventually forced out of the area.

2. The Egyptian woman that is in love with Joseph is known as _______, clings to his shirt and tears it from his back.

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

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

5. "Sufis adore the darkness of the deep night, like the blackness of the ______ cloth, when conversation with the divine is easiest."

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