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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 notes that the miracle of Jesus is ______, not what he did or said about the future, according to the poems.
(a) Himself.
(b) God.
(c) Intention.
(d) Love.

2. Joseph gives his Egyptian shirt to his ______ to lay over the eyes of Jacob, whose vision is then restored.
(a) Brothers.
(b) Mother.
(c) Father.
(d) Sisters.

3. Every day, Rumi says, people wake up with _________, but they need to continue to walk their spiritual path.
(a) Fear.
(b) Joy.
(c) Disbelief.
(d) Rapture.

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

5. "______ think they're looking for each other, but there's only one search: wandering the world."
(a) Friends.
(b) Lovers.
(c) Co-workers.
(d) Family.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. A baby __________ hears a whistling and is thus driven to fly into the sky, according to Rumi.

4. Rumi suggests that "sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own ________."

5. Rumi's poetry can be thought of as a conversation with _______, a discussion of what it is to be together in God.

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