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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. _________, according to Rumi, will tend to accumulate while the real work is going on elsewhere.
(a) Trust.
(b) Connections.
(c) Truths.
(d) Coins.
2. Shams asks Rumi who is greater, Muhammad the messenger of God, or ______ a mystic who claimed to be one with God.
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Konya.
(c) Bestami.
(d) Balkh.
3. Rumi suggests that human beings are like "some weird kind of ______ that wants to stay melted in the furnace."
(a) Silver.
(b) Iron.
(c) Gold.
(d) Lead.
4. The journey is a practice of ____________, rather than studying or learning with logic from the mind.
(a) Practicing.
(b) Experiencing.
(c) Falling.
(d) Jumping.
5. Rumi slipped back into what ______ the Greek called the whole catastrophe as a living example of another possibility for life.
(a) Manos.
(b) Tabriz.
(c) Zorba.
(d) Zappa.
Short Answer Questions
1. Rumi describes the journey a person must make as drinking ______ like water and eating sunset, in his poems.
2. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."
3. Rumi refers to the field that develops between the formless source and form ______ a personified image.
4. Since the reed was cut from the bed, it has made a ___________ sound, according to the description by Rumi.
5. Rumi suggests "My _____ is from elsewhere. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."
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