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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's "story gets told in various ways" including all of the following except________. He recommends that others not get too close to him.
(a) A war.
(b) A dirty joke.
(c) A funeral.
(d) A romance.

2. Rumi states that "the human shape is a _______ made of distraction and pain, trying to open the image of itself."
(a) Bowl.
(b) Ghost.
(c) Sphere.
(d) Circle.

3. Rumi suggests "My _____ is from elsewhere. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."
(a) Body.
(b) Mind.
(c) Soul.
(d) Spirit.

4. Rumi slipped back into what ______ the Greek called the whole catastrophe as a living example of another possibility for life.
(a) Manos.
(b) Zorba.
(c) Tabriz.
(d) Zappa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."

2. _______ was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt , gradually came to power there, and made a complicated trade route.

3. Rumi was able to take all the usual existential issues that human beings face on a daily basis and change them to ______.

4. Rumi doesn't want "wealth and position." He suggests that in this matter he is "______ resisting the most enormous magnet there is."

5. Anger is the main topic that Rumi explores in the poem entitled "A ______ Sky Hates the Moon."

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