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

2. 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.

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

4. ______ was killed on December 5, 1247, after being exiled and returning on several different occasions.
(a) Moses.
(b) Bestami.
(c) Shiraz.
(d) Shams.

5. Rumi lived most of his life in ______ Turkey which at the time was a great meeting place for many different cultures.
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Balkh.
(c) Konya,
(d) Bestami.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi suggests that people listen to his message with the ear that is in the center of the _______.

2. Rumi refers to the field that develops between the formless source and form ______ a personified image.

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

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

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

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