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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through We Have Opened You.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Shams asks Rumi who is greater, Muhammad the messenger of God, or ______ a mystic who claimed to be one with God.
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Balkh.
(c) Bestami.
(d) Konya.

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) Fun.
(c) Easy.
(d) Real.

5. Rumi confesses to wanting to have his teacher's __________ in order that he might fly too.
(a) Wings.
(b) Feet.
(c) Plane.
(d) Hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose table is spread with better food when a person fasts, according to Rumi?

2. Rumi uses the metaphor of tilling the soil to plant trees and roses for the way that one breaks up the __________.

3. When one begins to break down, Rumi says this is _________ and a feeling of being outside of time.

4. Every day, Rumi says, people wake up with _________, but they need to continue to walk their spiritual path.

5. Rumi met his companion Shams of _______ , described as a "street boddhisattva", in the marketplace.

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