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

2. Rumi became joyous, and then died, and then became a fool, according to his writing, and then became scattered _________.
(a) Thought.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Pebbles.
(d) Water.

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. The journey is a practice of ____________, rather than studying or learning with logic from the mind.
(a) Falling.
(b) Practicing.
(c) Experiencing.
(d) Jumping.

5. Rumi believes humans have an inherent instinct to be on a ___________, just a a bird is driven to fly.
(a) Mission.
(b) Branch.
(c) Journey.
(d) House.

Short Answer Questions

1. _______ was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt , gradually came to power there, and made a complicated trade route.

2. The ________ speaking scripture brings the dead students of scripture to life, according to Rumi.

3. The poets asks for a __________ to climb into the Friend, and the response is that this item is in the person's head.

4. Rumi states that "the human shape is a _______ made of distraction and pain, trying to open the image of itself."

5. Rumi's "story gets told in various ways" including all of the following except________. He recommends that others not get too close to him.

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