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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's poetry can be thought of as a conversation with _______, a discussion of what it is to be together in God.
(a) Shams.
(b) Muhammad.
(c) St. Francis.
(d) Moses.

2. Rumi encourages the reader to be the __________ nearest the thorn that he is, according to his writing.
(a) Ivy.
(b) Rose.
(c) Bush.
(d) Holly.

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

4. Shams asks Rumi who is greater, Muhammad the messenger of God, or ______ a mystic who claimed to be one with God.
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Balkh.
(c) Konya.
(d) Bestami.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Rumi's mystical work was contained within the patterns of ______ Sufism but the life was witness to the boundless universality of the heart.

5. Rumi describes a ______ that wakes up one day to discover that he is "the entire vineyard, and the orchard too."

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