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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 suggests not doing the work God sent you for is "like using a priceless Indian _____ to cut rotten meat."
(a) Knife.
(b) Spear.
(c) Sword.
(d) Hatchet.

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. According to the book, the eye is for _______; the soul for joy. The head is for loving; the legs for running.
(a) Trusting.
(b) Believing.
(c) Seeing.
(d) Visioning.

4. Rumi refers to the field that develops between the formless source and form ______ a personified image.
(a) The daughter.
(b) The friend.
(c) The father.
(d) The mother.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi asks the reader to let their _______ move them, playing music instead of reading as they go along.

2. Rumi suggests that human beings are like "some weird kind of ______ that wants to stay melted in the furnace."

3. Rumi states, in "The Prophets" no one knows if the _______ will sink or reach the harbor.

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

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

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