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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 met his companion Shams of _______ , described as a "street boddhisattva", in the marketplace.
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Balkh.
(c) Bestami.
(d) Konya.

2. In one of the poems, ______ cuts open a fish and discovers a gold ring. Omar storms in to kill the prophet.
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Shams.
(c) Solomon.
(d) Jesus.

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

4. Rumi states "This _____ began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place I will be completely sober."
(a) Lethargy.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Binge.
(d) Drunkeness.

5. The journey is a practice of ____________, rather than studying or learning with logic from the mind.
(a) Experiencing.
(b) Jumping.
(c) Falling.
(d) Practicing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi asks the reader to let their _______ move them, playing music instead of reading as they go along.

2. Rumi states, in "The Prophets" no one knows if the _______ will sink or reach the harbor.

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

4. Rumi describes a ______ that wakes up one day to discover that he is "the entire vineyard, and the orchard too."

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

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