View a FREE sample

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

2. Not doing the work God sent you to do is like "pounding a _____ of the finest tempering to hang things on."
(a) Knife.
(b) Sword.
(c) Nail.
(d) Spear.

3. ______ was killed on December 5, 1247, after being exiled and returning on several different occasions.
(a) Shams.
(b) Bestami.
(c) Moses.
(d) Shiraz.

4. Rumi states "This _____ began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place I will be completely sober."
(a) Lethargy.
(b) Binge.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) Drunkeness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. _______ was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt , gradually came to power there, and made a complicated trade route.

2. 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.

3. Rumi states, in "The Prophets" no one knows if the _______ will sink or reach the harbor.

4. Rumi suggests that "sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own ________."

5. Rumi suggests that human beings are like "some weird kind of ______ that wants to stay melted in the furnace."

(see the answer key)

This section contains 229 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample