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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 relishes things like walking, meditation, and fasting as they help to bring a person into ____________.
(a) Themselves.
(b) The moment.
(c) The connection with God.
(d) A new love.

2. Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the remote town of _______ in what is now Afghanistan.
(a) Anatolia.
(b) Balkh.
(c) Konya.
(d) Bestami.

3. The Egyptian woman that is in love with Joseph is known as _______, clings to his shirt and tears it from his back.
(a) Zuleikha.
(b) Zulu.
(c) Isis.
(d) Nefertiti.

4. Rumi's "story gets told in various ways" including all of the following except________. He recommends that others not get too close to him.
(a) A funeral.
(b) A dirty joke.
(c) A romance.
(d) A war.

5. Rumi urges the reader to let go of the _____, the covering clothes, and to be naked in the world, according to his writing.
(a) Truth.
(b) Brain.
(c) Heart.
(d) Outcome.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet notes that he is nothing, not from an origin story, not body or __________, according to the writing.

2. Not doing the work God sent you to do is like "pounding a _____ of the finest tempering to hang things on."

3. When Rumi regained consciousness, he stated that _______ was the greater because he realized the breadth of God.

4. Rumi describes the journey a person must make as drinking ______ like water and eating sunset, in his poems.

5. The pull of love is something Rumi compares to a ________, urging the reader to realize learning is about more than just books.

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