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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The story of Joseph focuses on the loss of his _____ of many colors that has false blood on it to convince people of his death.
(a) Shoes.
(b) Coat.
(c) Pants.
(d) Hat.

2. Rumi's poetry can be thought of as a conversation with _______, a discussion of what it is to be together in God.
(a) Shams.
(b) Muhammad.
(c) St. Francis.
(d) Moses.

3. Joseph gives his Egyptian shirt to his ______ to lay over the eyes of Jacob, whose vision is then restored.
(a) Brothers.
(b) Mother.
(c) Sisters.
(d) Father.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The _____ in which Joseph sits in darkness at the bottom of is recognized as a visionary place.

3. Rumi's mystical work was contained within the patterns of ______ Sufism but the life was witness to the boundless universality of the heart.

4. Rumi sent his son _______ to bring back his exiled companion. He was found playing cards with the future St. Francis of Assisi.

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

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