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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 the book, Rumi lived by the idea that _______ is the religion instead of being tied to a particular paradigm.
(a) Prayer.
(b) Love.
(c) Thought.
(d) Abstinence.

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

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

4. Rumi's students saw ______ as a madman and he was eventually forced out of the area.
(a) Muhammad.
(b) Shams.
(c) Bestami.
(d) Balkh.

5. Shams asks Rumi who is greater, Muhammad the messenger of God, or ______ a mystic who claimed to be one with God.
(a) Konya.
(b) Balkh.
(c) Bestami.
(d) Tabriz.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."

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

3. "______ think they're looking for each other, but there's only one search: wandering the world."

4. Those who do not wake to the truth, according to Rumi, are those who do not embrace the beauty of __________.

5. Since the reed was cut from the bed, it has made a ___________ sound, according to the description by Rumi.

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