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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. Love is more than an old study of _________, according to the writing of Rumi in this section.
(a) Art.
(b) Sculpture.
(c) Honor.
(d) Religion.

2. Rumi urges the reader to let go of the _____, the covering clothes, and to be naked in the world, according to his writing.
(a) Truth.
(b) Outcome.
(c) Brain.
(d) Heart.

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

4. Those who do not wake to the truth, according to Rumi, are those who do not embrace the beauty of __________.
(a) Light.
(b) God.
(c) Lessons.
(d) Nature.

5. Rumi's students saw ______ as a madman and he was eventually forced out of the area.
(a) Muhammad.
(b) Bestami.
(c) Balkh.
(d) Shams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Joseph gives his Egyptian shirt to his ______ to lay over the eyes of Jacob, whose vision is then restored.

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

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

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

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

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