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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. Rumi gives advice about how to deal with hardship, "The cure for the ______ is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed."
(a) Pain.
(b) Depression.
(c) Love.
(d) Disease.

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

3. ______ means the sun, and Rumi often referred to him in his poetry which he began writing after his friend's death.
(a) Solomon.
(b) Moses.
(c) Shams.
(d) Shiraz.

4. In one of the poems Rumi states, "We are charlatans... or maybe just a ______ hair brush in a painter's hand."
(a) Dog's.
(b) Camel's.
(c) Horse's.
(d) Goat's.

5. Rumi lived most of his life in ______ Turkey which at the time was a great meeting place for many different cultures.
(a) Konya,
(b) Tabriz.
(c) Balkh.
(d) Bestami.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi suggests "My _____ is from elsewhere. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."

2. Rumi describes a ______ that wakes up one day to discover that he is "the entire vineyard, and the orchard too."

3. Not doing the work God sent you for is the equivalent of "using a _____ bowl to cook turnips in.

4. Shams asks Rumi who is greater, Muhammad the messenger of God, or ______ a mystic who claimed to be one with God.

5. Rumi's students saw ______ as a madman and he was eventually forced out of the area.

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