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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Come to the Orchard.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Rumi was able to take all the usual existential issues that human beings face on a daily basis and change them to ______.
(a) Lessons.
(b) Light.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Pictures.

3. Rumi states that "the human shape is a _______ made of distraction and pain, trying to open the image of itself."
(a) Circle.
(b) Ghost.
(c) Sphere.
(d) Bowl.

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

5. When a man is approached by a person who wants to bring his reluctant cousin to a spiritual leader, what is used to convince the cousin?
(a) Fish soup.
(b) A promise for truth.
(c) Money.
(d) Prayers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi doesn't want "wealth and position." He suggests that in this matter he is "______ resisting the most enormous magnet there is."

2. Love is more than an old study of _________, according to the writing of Rumi in this section.

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

4. The _________ represents the imagination where the spiritual journey takes place, according to Rumi.

5. Since the reed was cut from the bed, it has made a ___________ sound, according to the description by Rumi.

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