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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through There Is a Breathing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi asks the reader to let their _______ move them, playing music instead of reading as they go along.
(a) Friends.
(b) Truth.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Soul.

2. Rumi notes there is only one search in the world: "___________ this world is wandering that..."
(a) Wandering.
(b) Breathing.
(c) Knowing.
(d) Living.

3. In one poem, Rumi begins to describe two lovers who are ___________ and drinking water.
(a) Singing.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Walking.
(d) Sleeping.

4. 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.

5. The man compares himself to a __________ in the sunrise, saying that he is lost in his lover's reflection.
(a) Diamond.
(b) Ruby.
(c) Emerald.
(d) Sapphire.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Rumi challenges us to "work in the ______ world as hard as we do in the visible" and to "be a companion with the prophets."

3. When Rumi died, he was mourned by members of all of the following religious groups except _______.

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 advises the reader to disappear with the _________ each month and to bend like a tree limb.

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