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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conclusion, Into the Soup.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.
(a) Coat.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Pants.
(d) Hat.

2. Rumi was able to take all the usual existential issues that human beings face on a daily basis and change them to ______.
(a) Poetry.
(b) Light.
(c) Lessons.
(d) Pictures.

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

4. The poet calls out for his _____'s return and to re-live their union during the course of one of his poems.
(a) Friend.
(b) Lover.
(c) Brother.
(d) Mother.

5. 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) Love in one's life.
(c) Soul.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In a poem, Rumi asks the lion of the ________ to roar and rend open the writer, according to the content of the poem.

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

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

5. "Come Back, My Friend" is a poem about the many times that Rumi has lost connection with his ___________.

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