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

2. Rumi slipped back into what ______ the Greek called the whole catastrophe as a living example of another possibility for life.
(a) Manos.
(b) Zappa.
(c) Zorba.
(d) Tabriz.

3. Rumi encourages the reader to be the __________ nearest the thorn that he is, according to his writing.
(a) Rose.
(b) Ivy.
(c) Holly.
(d) Bush.

4. The ________ breath brings a presence, through the head to the heart, with a mantra, "God alone is real."
(a) Inward.
(b) Truth.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Outward.

5. Whose table is spread with better food when a person fasts, according to Rumi?
(a) Allah's.
(b) Jehovah's.
(c) Jesus'.
(d) Muhammad's.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In a poem, Rumi asks the lion of the ________ to roar and rend open the writer, according to the content of the poem.

3. Every day, Rumi says, people wake up with _________, but they need to continue to walk their spiritual path.

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

5. Rumi notes there is only one search in the world: "___________ this world is wandering that..."

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