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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 suggests that "sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own ________."
(a) Love.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Smallness.
(d) Immensity.

2. Rumi notes there is only one search in the world: "___________ this world is wandering that..."
(a) Living.
(b) Knowing.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Wandering.

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

4. Rumi points out that while others are laughing and dancing, there are few who will hear the ________ hidden within the notes.
(a) Secrets.
(b) Treasures.
(c) Chants.
(d) Beliefs.

5. Rumi realizes that in all of his searching, he has actually been waiting to be _________ as opposed to brought inside.
(a) Destroyed.
(b) Let out.
(c) Devoured.
(d) Believed.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the poet talks about tearing down the ___________, he is talking about tearing down the self.

2. Rumi uses the metaphor of being sent to do a task by a King, and forgetting in the poem "The _____ Work".

3. According to the book, Rumi lived by the idea that _______ is the religion instead of being tied to a particular paradigm.

4. From talking to a ______ to eating cabbage broth, Rumi says that the tasks of everyday life bring a person into a spiritual realm.

5. In a dream, according to Rumi, an _____________ in a garden of love reached out to call him forward.

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