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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. Rumi asks the reader to accept _________, as everything comes from a higher place, according to his writing.
(a) Lessons.
(b) People.
(c) Troubles.
(d) Injuries.

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

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

4. If the beloved can be seen in everyday, according to Rumi, the ________ is a hindrance, one might say.
(a) Apple.
(b) Pot.
(c) Lover.
(d) World.

5. What images in the book does Barks say reflect the idea of openings within the world and in the poems?
(a) Birds.
(b) Doors.
(c) Windows.
(d) Cages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi asserts in his poems that "the miracle of ______ is himself, not what he said or did about the future."

2. Barks reminds the reader about how often ______ is used as a piece of advice for calming one's self.

3. According to the book, Rumi lived by the idea that _______ is the religion instead of being tied to a particular paradigm.

4. In one of the poems Rumi states, "We are charlatans... or maybe just a ______ hair brush in a painter's hand."

5. Rumi compares daily spiritual practice to continuing to knock at a ___________ to eventually contact the joy inside.

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