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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 was able to take all the usual existential issues that human beings face on a daily basis and change them to ______.
(a) Light.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Lessons.
(d) Poetry.

2. The _____ in which Joseph sits in darkness at the bottom of is recognized as a visionary place.
(a) Cave.
(b) Well.
(c) Cellar.
(d) House.

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

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

5. When Rumi died, he was mourned by members of all of the following religious groups except _______.
(a) Christians
(b) Jews.
(c) Taoists.
(d) Muslims.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Rumi's "story gets told in various ways" including all of the following except________. He recommends that others not get too close to him.

3. Rumi points out that while others are laughing and dancing, there are few who will hear the ________ hidden within the notes.

4. Rumi's poetry can be thought of as a conversation with _______, a discussion of what it is to be together in God.

5. Rumi asserts in his poems that "the miracle of ______ is himself, not what he said or did about the future."

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