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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through I Have Such a Teacher.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shams comes down from the ___________, the poet says, and the readers will become the doorkeepers.
(a) Stone.
(b) Roof.
(c) Ledge.
(d) Window.

2. Rumi describes paying attention to the breath and letting go of the _______ with outward breaths.
(a) Fears.
(b) Love.
(c) Attachments.
(d) Self.

3. Rumi was able to take all the usual existential issues that human beings face on a daily basis and change them to ______.
(a) Pictures.
(b) Light.
(c) Lessons.
(d) Poetry.

4. Who is the spiritual leader who is approached in order to see how a person might be coaxed into learning?
(a) Ramakrishna.
(b) Shams.
(c) Bawa.
(d) Rumi.

5. Who is the madman that wields a knife, the thing which is a nihilist that embraces destruction?
(a) Truth.
(b) Trust.
(c) Love.
(d) Pity.

Short Answer Questions

1. When asked how long he would remain in pain, Rumi answered that he was a _________ and his friend was the whole night.

2. Rumi asks the reader to welcome all __________ in one's life, even the ones which are negative.

3. Rumi wants the reader to know that embracing _________ transforms this into joy.

4. The poets asks for a __________ to climb into the Friend, and the response is that this item is in the person's head.

5. The ________ breath brings a presence, through the head to the heart, with a mantra, "God alone is real."

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