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

2. Rumi states "This _____ began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place I will be completely sober."
(a) Drunkeness.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Binge.
(d) Lethargy.

3. In a poem, Rumi asks the lion of the ________ to roar and rend open the writer, according to the content of the poem.
(a) Horse.
(b) Tiger.
(c) Bear.
(d) Lion.

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

5. Bawa lived alone in a ________ before beginning to teach in Sri Lanka in the 1940s before moving to Philadelphia.
(a) Cave dwelling.
(b) Igloo.
(c) Jungle.
(d) Mountain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi notes there is only one search in the world: "___________ this world is wandering that..."

2. In the poem, "Give ______ slowly" Rumi uses the new moon as a metaphor for patients and slowness in creation.

3. A _______ asks a man who is calling to Allah whether he has ever gotten a reply and then chastises the person for continuing to pray.

4. Rumi urges the reader to let go of the _____, the covering clothes, and to be naked in the world, according to his writing.

5. ______ was killed on December 5, 1247, after being exiled and returning on several different occasions.

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