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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 describes a field, beyond right and wrong, where the ________ goes and loses ideas and language.
(a) Heart.
(b) Hand.
(c) Soul.
(d) Mind.

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

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

4. In the poem "The Prophets" the people wonder "How long should we keep pounding this cold _____?"
(a) Silver.
(b) Gold.
(c) Iron.
(d) Lead.

5. There is beauty in every meeting or gathering, the presence of _________, of 'the Friend' in one of Rumi's poems.
(a) Grains.
(b) Masters.
(c) Students.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi's students saw ______ as a madman and he was eventually forced out of the area.

2. Sufis are loved the world over for reminding us that the glory is our ______ reality and the opposite is a kind of language for expressing it.

3. Rumi speaks about the blushing _________ of a lover as he begins to speak of a particular color.

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

5. Rumi describes love as many things which come to his heart, like a thousand ____________ in one grain.

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