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

2. Rumi suggests that human beings are like "some weird kind of ______ that wants to stay melted in the furnace."
(a) Silver.
(b) Lead.
(c) Gold.
(d) Iron.

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

4. The story of Joseph focuses on the loss of his _____ of many colors that has false blood on it to convince people of his death.
(a) Pants.
(b) Hat.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Coat.

5. Rumi challenges us to "work in the ______ world as hard as we do in the visible" and to "be a companion with the prophets."
(a) Invisible.
(b) Loving.
(c) Infinite.
(d) Spiritual world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi states "This _____ began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place I will be completely sober."

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

3. 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.

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

5. Anger is the main topic that Rumi explores in the poem entitled "A ______ Sky Hates the Moon."

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