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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 when seeing the birds flying in frenzied patterns whether the one he _______ is everywhere.
(a) Worships.
(b) Believes.
(c) Avoids.
(d) Loves.

2. Rumi uses the metaphor of being sent to do a task by a King, and forgetting in the poem "The _____ Work".
(a) Fun.
(b) Easy.
(c) Hard.
(d) Real.

3. Since the reed was cut from the bed, it has made a ___________ sound, according to the description by Rumi.
(a) Angry.
(b) Joyful.
(c) Crying.
(d) Mysterious.

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

5. The "___" is an illusion, according to Rumi, and this is why this part needs to be removed from the experience.
(a) I.
(b) Truth.
(c) Correctedness.
(d) Lesson.

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. Rumi's "story gets told in various ways" including all of the following except________. He recommends that others not get too close to him.

3. _________, according to Rumi, will tend to accumulate while the real work is going on elsewhere.

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

5. Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the remote town of _______ in what is now Afghanistan.

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