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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 asks the reader to accept _________, as everything comes from a higher place, according to his writing.
(a) Troubles.
(b) People.
(c) Lessons.
(d) Injuries.

2. The destination may be unclear for __________ understanding, according to Rumi, but one should walk anyway.
(a) Human.
(b) Childlike.
(c) Better.
(d) Animal.

3. "______ think they're looking for each other, but there's only one search: wandering the world."
(a) Friends.
(b) Family.
(c) Co-workers.
(d) Lovers.

4. "Sufis adore the darkness of the deep night, like the blackness of the ______ cloth, when conversation with the divine is easiest."
(a) Temple.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Kaaba.
(d) Pillow.

5. In one poem, Rumi begins to describe two lovers who are ___________ and drinking water.
(a) Walking.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Singing.
(d) Dancing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Rumi stops his list of things which he uses to describe a friend within his poem in order to ______________.

3. Bawa's teachings not only encouraged Barks, but they also encouraged Barks to bring Rumi to ____________.

4. The poet quotes Muhammad in one of the poems, saying that he will come take a person before _________.

5. Who is the madman that wields a knife, the thing which is a nihilist that embraces destruction?

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