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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. Rumi challenges us to "work in the ______ world as hard as we do in the visible" and to "be a companion with the prophets."
(a) Spiritual world.
(b) Infinite.
(c) Loving.
(d) Invisible.

2. Lovers have to ________________, but they will find something of infinite value, according to the writing of Rumi.
(a) Fall into a hole.
(b) Separate.
(c) Fight with each other.
(d) Know the truth.

3. The "___" is an illusion, according to Rumi, and this is why this part needs to be removed from the experience.
(a) I.
(b) Truth.
(c) Lesson.
(d) Correctedness.

4. The poet speaks of happiness for an unknown reason, and it becomes easy to ______, though the joy is inexplicable.
(a) Cry.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Smile.
(d) Surrender.

5. Rumi confesses to wanting to have his teacher's __________ in order that he might fly too.
(a) Wings.
(b) Feet.
(c) Plane.
(d) Hands.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Rumi also believes that a reader should _________, even if they don't mean it at first.

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