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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 suggests that "sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own ________."
(a) Love.
(b) Immensity.
(c) Smallness.
(d) Immortality.

2. According to the book, Rumi lived by the idea that _______ is the religion instead of being tied to a particular paradigm.
(a) Prayer.
(b) Thought.
(c) Love.
(d) Abstinence.

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

4. Rumi met his companion Shams of _______ , described as a "street boddhisattva", in the marketplace.
(a) Bestami.
(b) Balkh.
(c) Konya.
(d) Tabriz.

5. Rumi suggests "My _____ is from elsewhere. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."
(a) Soul.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Body.
(d) Mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi instructs us to "consider what the prophets have done. ______ wore fire for an anklet, Moses spoke to the sea."

2. Rumi encourages the reader to be the __________ nearest the thorn that he is, according to his writing.

3. The Egyptian woman that is in love with Joseph is known as _______, clings to his shirt and tears it from his back.

4. Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the remote town of _______ in what is now Afghanistan.

5. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."

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