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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. Barks points out that Shams believed that Rumi wrote in _________ ways when he wrote to teach others.
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Ten.

2. Sufis are loved the world over for reminding us that the glory is our ______ reality and the opposite is a kind of language for expressing it.
(a) Surface.
(b) Outer.
(c) Lower.
(d) Inner.

3. Rumi's "story gets told in various ways" including all of the following except________. He recommends that others not get too close to him.
(a) A dirty joke.
(b) A war.
(c) A funeral.
(d) A romance.

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

5. Rumi notes that everywhere a reader goes, they will perceive others as they themselves are, just as a _________ will ignore the amazing city of Baghdad.
(a) Ant.
(b) Fly.
(c) Cow.
(d) Child.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi became joyous, and then died, and then became a fool, according to his writing, and then became scattered _________.

2. __________ in the presence, at the price of one's life, is a bargain, according to one of the poems of Rumi.

3. The __________ is the reason for the praying, according to Allah, as Rumi recollects in one of his poems.

4. The poet speaks of happiness for an unknown reason, and it becomes easy to ______, though the joy is inexplicable.

5. Anyone or anything that is loved reflects the lover's ____________, according to Barks in relation to the Sufis.

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