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

2. In the poem "The Prophets" the people wonder "How long should we keep pounding this cold _____?"
(a) Gold.
(b) Lead.
(c) Silver.
(d) Iron.

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

4. Rumi's mystical work was contained within the patterns of ______ Sufism but the life was witness to the boundless universality of the heart.
(a) Christian.
(b) Islamic,
(c) Jain.
(d) Buddhist.

5. "Sufis adore the darkness of the deep night, like the blackness of the ______ cloth, when conversation with the divine is easiest."
(a) Pillow.
(b) Kaaba.
(c) Temple.
(d) Cotton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi notes that the miracle of Jesus is ______, not what he did or said about the future, according to the poems.

2. Shams asks Rumi who is greater, Muhammad the messenger of God, or ______ a mystic who claimed to be one with God.

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

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

5. Rumi met his companion Shams of _______ , described as a "street boddhisattva", in the marketplace.

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