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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 speaks of the surrendering to __________ which brings light to all one's flaws, within one of his poems.
(a) Innocence.
(b) Love.
(c) Truth.
(d) Timelessness.

2. Rumi uses the metaphor of tilling the soil to plant trees and roses for the way that one breaks up the __________.
(a) Lessons one is taught.
(b) Soul.
(c) Love in one's life.
(d) Truth.

3. Who is the spiritual leader who is approached in order to see how a person might be coaxed into learning?
(a) Rumi.
(b) Shams.
(c) Ramakrishna.
(d) Bawa.

4. Shams comes down from the ___________, the poet says, and the readers will become the doorkeepers.
(a) Window.
(b) Roof.
(c) Stone.
(d) Ledge.

5. Rumi asks the reader to make a __________, abhorring spiritual windowshoppers who are not giving fully of themselves.
(a) Commitment.
(b) Blood oath.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Book.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi suggests that human beings are like "some weird kind of ______ that wants to stay melted in the furnace."

2. Not doing the work God sent you to do is like "pounding a _____ of the finest tempering to hang things on."

3. In a dream, according to Rumi, an _____________ in a garden of love reached out to call him forward.

4. The __________ of the world around Rumi will become his clothes and his jewels, according to the teachings of Rumi's teacher.

5. When a man is approached by a person who wants to bring his reluctant cousin to a spiritual leader, what is used to convince the cousin?

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