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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rise Up Nimbly and Go on Your Strange Journey.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. "______ think they're looking for each other, but there's only one search: wandering the world."
(a) Lovers.
(b) Family.
(c) Friends.
(d) Co-workers.

3. Anger is the main topic that Rumi explores in the poem entitled "A ______ Sky Hates the Moon."
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

4. Rumi notes there is nothing worse than going to ______ without another person, the vague 'you.'
(a) Pray.
(b) Read.
(c) Walk along the street.
(d) Eat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In one of the poems Rumi states, "We are charlatans... or maybe just a ______ hair brush in a painter's hand."

2. Rumi challenges us to "work in the ______ world as hard as we do in the visible" and to "be a companion with the prophets."

3. Not doing the work God sent you to do is like "pounding a _____ of the finest tempering to hang things on."

4. Rumi notes that the miracle of Jesus is ______, not what he did or said about the future, according to the poems.

5. Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the remote town of _______ in what is now Afghanistan.

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