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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. The poet quotes Muhammad in one of the poems, saying that he will come take a person before _________.
(a) Dawn.
(b) Birth.
(c) Nightfall.
(d) Death.

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

3. Rumi compares daily spiritual practice to continuing to knock at a ___________ to eventually contact the joy inside.
(a) Rock.
(b) Window.
(c) Tree.
(d) Door.

4. Rumi says that humans should explore the reality of ____________, the grittiness of the soul and not live in the ideal.
(a) Books.
(b) Churches.
(c) God.
(d) Humanity.

5. Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the remote town of _______ in what is now Afghanistan.
(a) Bestami.
(b) Balkh.
(c) Anatolia.
(d) Konya.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fullness _______ the soul, while emptiness frees it, according to the writing of Rumi in the poem.

2. Rumi talks to the reader about the desired kiss as the _________ coming up into the lips of a person.

3. The poet describes himself as being someone who wants little and who needs only a _____________.

4. Rumi instructs us to "consider what the prophets have done. ______ wore fire for an anklet, Moses spoke to the sea."

5. The poet says that he is a letter to everyone around him, a letter which says, "_______" according to the poet.

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