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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. 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) Loving.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Spiritual world.
(d) Infinite.

2. Rumi lived most of his life in ______ Turkey which at the time was a great meeting place for many different cultures.
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Konya,
(c) Balkh.
(d) Bestami.

3. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."
(a) Stars.
(b) Moon.
(c) Son.
(d) Sun.

4. From talking to a ______ to eating cabbage broth, Rumi says that the tasks of everyday life bring a person into a spiritual realm.
(a) Peasant.
(b) Priest.
(c) Spouse.
(d) Barber.

5. Rumi instructs us to "consider what the prophets have done. ______ wore fire for an anklet, Moses spoke to the sea."
(a) Solomon.
(b) David.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Abraham.

Short Answer Questions

1. Not doing the work God sent you for is the equivalent of "using a _____ bowl to cook turnips in.

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

3. _______ was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt , gradually came to power there, and made a complicated trade route.

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

5. According to the book, Rumi lived by the idea that _______ is the religion instead of being tied to a particular paradigm.

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