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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 poet notes that he is nothing, not from an origin story, not body or __________, according to the writing.
(a) Truth.
(b) Soul.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Endings.

2. The poet has to ask Shams and _________ to help him, since he is partly within himself and partly outside of himself.
(a) Books.
(b) Sun.
(c) Peasant.
(d) Moon.

3. Barks talks in his commentary about the mysterious "________" in the poem, though he defines it differently.
(a) Book.
(b) Color.
(c) You.
(d) Bird.

4. Rumi speaks about the blushing _________ of a lover as he begins to speak of a particular color.
(a) Modesty.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Advances.
(d) Words.

5. Fullness _______ the soul, while emptiness frees it, according to the writing of Rumi in the poem.
(a) Engages.
(b) Oppresses.
(c) Depletes.
(d) Fills.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet compares himself to a __________, stripped of its petals and of its leaves, within one of the poems.

2. Joseph gives his Egyptian shirt to his ______ to lay over the eyes of Jacob, whose vision is then restored.

3. If the beloved can be seen in everyday, according to Rumi, the ________ is a hindrance, one might say.

4. Barks compares humans talking about God to fish talking about the _________, in his commentary.

5. The _________ represents the imagination where the spiritual journey takes place, according to Rumi.

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