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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Rumi died, he was mourned by members of all of the following religious groups except _______.
(a) Taoists.
(b) Muslims.
(c) Jews.
(d) Christians

2. Rumi realizes that in all of his searching, he has actually been waiting to be _________ as opposed to brought inside.
(a) Devoured.
(b) Destroyed.
(c) Believed.
(d) Let out.

3. Rumi describes the journey a person must make as drinking ______ like water and eating sunset, in his poems.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Moonshine.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Truth.

4. Those who do not wake to the truth, according to Rumi, are those who do not embrace the beauty of __________.
(a) God.
(b) Lessons.
(c) Nature.
(d) Light.

5. "______ think they're looking for each other, but there's only one search: wandering the world."
(a) Friends.
(b) Family.
(c) Lovers.
(d) Co-workers.

6. Not doing the work God sent you for is the equivalent of "using a _____ bowl to cook turnips in.
(a) Jeweled.
(b) Silver.
(c) Iron.
(d) Gold.

7. Rumi notes there is nothing worse than going to ______ without another person, the vague 'you.'
(a) Pray.
(b) Walk along the street.
(c) Eat.
(d) Read.

8. Rumi met his companion Shams of _______ , described as a "street boddhisattva", in the marketplace.
(a) Balkh.
(b) Konya.
(c) Tabriz.
(d) Bestami.

9. In the poem, "Give ______ slowly" Rumi uses the new moon as a metaphor for patients and slowness in creation.
(a) Truth.
(b) Birth.
(c) Honor.
(d) Love.

10. Rumi relishes things like walking, meditation, and fasting as they help to bring a person into ____________.
(a) The connection with God.
(b) The moment.
(c) A new love.
(d) Themselves.

11. Rumi uses the metaphor of being sent to do a task by a King, and forgetting in the poem "The _____ Work".
(a) Hard.
(b) Real.
(c) Fun.
(d) Easy.

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

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

14. Rumi's students saw ______ as a madman and he was eventually forced out of the area.
(a) Balkh.
(b) Shams.
(c) Muhammad.
(d) Bestami.

15. Rumi notes that the miracle of Jesus is ______, not what he did or said about the future, according to the poems.
(a) Intention.
(b) God.
(c) Love.
(d) Himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi encourages the reader to be the __________ nearest the thorn that he is, according to his writing.

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. Rumi suggests "My _____ is from elsewhere. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."

4. The Egyptian woman that is in love with Joseph is known as _______, clings to his shirt and tears it from his back.

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

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