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

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

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

4. Rumi describes a ______ that wakes up one day to discover that he is "the entire vineyard, and the orchard too."
(a) Bird.
(b) Snake.
(c) Ferret.
(d) Worm.

5. Rumi notes there is only one search in the world: "___________ this world is wandering that..."
(a) Breathing.
(b) Wandering.
(c) Knowing.
(d) Living.

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. The _____ in which Joseph sits in darkness at the bottom of is recognized as a visionary place.

3. Rumi was able to take all the usual existential issues that human beings face on a daily basis and change them to ______.

4. "______ think they're looking for each other, but there's only one search: wandering the world."

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

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