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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. Rumi refers to the field that develops between the formless source and form ______ a personified image.
(a) The friend.
(b) The father.
(c) The daughter.
(d) The mother.

2. Rumi describes a field, beyond right and wrong, where the ________ goes and loses ideas and language.
(a) Hand.
(b) Heart.
(c) Mind.
(d) Soul.

3. The poet compares himself to a __________, stripped of its petals and of its leaves, within one of the poems.
(a) Daisy.
(b) Peony.
(c) Rose hip.
(d) Violet.

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

5. Whose table is spread with better food when a person fasts, according to Rumi?
(a) Jehovah's.
(b) Jesus'.
(c) Muhammad's.
(d) Allah's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since the reed was cut from the bed, it has made a ___________ sound, according to the description by Rumi.

2. Bawa lived alone in a ________ before beginning to teach in Sri Lanka in the 1940s before moving to Philadelphia.

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

4. Rumi speaks of the surrendering to __________ which brings light to all one's flaws, within one of his poems.

5. Love is more than an old study of _________, according to the writing of Rumi in this section.

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