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

2. Rumi compares daily spiritual practice to continuing to knock at a ___________ to eventually contact the joy inside.
(a) Window.
(b) Rock.
(c) Door.
(d) Tree.

3. Anger is the main topic that Rumi explores in the poem entitled "A ______ Sky Hates the Moon."
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.

4. Rumi lived most of his life in ______ Turkey which at the time was a great meeting place for many different cultures.
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Bestami.
(c) Konya,
(d) Balkh.

5. ______ was killed on December 5, 1247, after being exiled and returning on several different occasions.
(a) Bestami.
(b) Shams.
(c) Shiraz.
(d) Moses.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Sufis adore the darkness of the deep night, like the blackness of the ______ cloth, when conversation with the divine is easiest."

2. The _____________ who are there in the orchard do not matter, according to Rumi, along with the light and the wine.

3. Rumi relishes things like walking, meditation, and fasting as they help to bring a person into ____________.

4. The _____ in which Joseph sits in darkness at the bottom of is recognized as a visionary place.

5. The poet quotes Muhammad in one of the poems, saying that he will come take a person before _________.

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