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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 uses the metaphor of being sent to do a task by a King, and forgetting in the poem "The _____ Work".
(a) Fun.
(b) Real.
(c) Easy.
(d) Hard.

2. Rumi notes that the miracle of Jesus is ______, not what he did or said about the future, according to the poems.
(a) Himself.
(b) God.
(c) Intention.
(d) Love.

3. Rumi encourages the reader to be the __________ nearest the thorn that he is, according to his writing.
(a) Rose.
(b) Holly.
(c) Ivy.
(d) Bush.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sufis are loved the world over for reminding us that the glory is our ______ reality and the opposite is a kind of language for expressing it.

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

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

4. Rumi notes there is only one search in the world: "___________ this world is wandering that..."

5. Rumi refers to the field that develops between the formless source and form ______ a personified image.

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