View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi sent his son _______ to bring back his exiled companion. He was found playing cards with the future St. Francis of Assisi.
(a) Moses.
(b) Solomon.
(c) Sultan Veled.
(d) Sultan Balkh.

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

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

4. _______ was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt , gradually came to power there, and made a complicated trade route.
(a) Joseph.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Jacob.
(d) Esau.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Rumi died, he was mourned by members of all of the following religious groups except _______.

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

4. 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.

5. In one of the poems, ______ cuts open a fish and discovers a gold ring. Omar storms in to kill the prophet.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 240 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample