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

2. Rumi suggests that people listen to his message with the ear that is in the center of the _______.
(a) Feet.
(b) Forehead.
(c) Stomach.
(d) Chest.

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

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

5. Rumi's students saw ______ as a madman and he was eventually forced out of the area.
(a) Shams.
(b) Muhammad.
(c) Bestami.
(d) Balkh.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

4. Rumi slipped back into what ______ the Greek called the whole catastrophe as a living example of another possibility for life.

5. Rumi lived most of his life in ______ Turkey which at the time was a great meeting place for many different cultures.

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