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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 asserts in his poems that "the miracle of ______ is himself, not what he said or did about the future."
(a) Gandhi.
(b) Muhammad.
(c) Buddha.
(d) Jesus.

2. Rumi suggests that "sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own ________."
(a) Smallness.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Immensity.
(d) Love.

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

4. Rumi doesn't want "wealth and position." He suggests that in this matter he is "______ resisting the most enormous magnet there is."
(a) Steel.
(b) Gold.
(c) Iron.
(d) Silver.

5. "Sufis adore the darkness of the deep night, like the blackness of the ______ cloth, when conversation with the divine is easiest."
(a) Pillow.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Kaaba.
(d) Temple.

Short Answer Questions

1. The robe of the teacher creates _________, according to Rumi, and the teacher also creates new life.

2. The soul, says Rumi, is in the shape of a ___________, according to one of his many poems.

3. From talking to a ______ to eating cabbage broth, Rumi says that the tasks of everyday life bring a person into a spiritual realm.

4. Rumi advises the reader to disappear with the _________ each month and to bend like a tree limb.

5. The story of Joseph focuses on the loss of his _____ of many colors that has false blood on it to convince people of his death.

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