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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 uses the metaphor of being sent to do a task by a King, and forgetting in the poem "The _____ Work".
(a) Hard.
(b) Fun.
(c) Easy.
(d) Real.

2. From talking to a ______ to eating cabbage broth, Rumi says that the tasks of everyday life bring a person into a spiritual realm.
(a) Barber.
(b) Peasant.
(c) Spouse.
(d) Priest.

3. The _____________ who are there in the orchard do not matter, according to Rumi, along with the light and the wine.
(a) Sweethearts.
(b) Birds.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Students.

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

5. When a man is approached by a person who wants to bring his reluctant cousin to a spiritual leader, what is used to convince the cousin?
(a) Money.
(b) Prayers.
(c) Fish soup.
(d) A promise for truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one poem, Rumi begins to describe two lovers who are ___________ and drinking water.

2. Rumi's mystical work was contained within the patterns of ______ Sufism but the life was witness to the boundless universality of the heart.

3. Joseph gives his Egyptian shirt to his ______ to lay over the eyes of Jacob, whose vision is then restored.

4. Rumi notes there is nothing worse than going to ______ without another person, the vague 'you.'

5. Rumi asserts in his poems that "the miracle of ______ is himself, not what he said or did about the future."

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