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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi suggests that human beings are like "some weird kind of ______ that wants to stay melted in the furnace."
(a) Iron.
(b) Lead.
(c) Gold.
(d) Silver.

2. Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the remote town of _______ in what is now Afghanistan.
(a) Bestami.
(b) Konya.
(c) Anatolia.
(d) Balkh.

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

5. Rumi suggests that people listen to his message with the ear that is in the center of the _______.
(a) Stomach.
(b) Chest.
(c) Forehead.
(d) Feet.

6. Rumi sent his son _______ to bring back his exiled companion. He was found playing cards with the future St. Francis of Assisi.
(a) Sultan Veled.
(b) Moses.
(c) Sultan Balkh.
(d) Solomon.

7. The poet quotes Muhammad in one of the poems, saying that he will come take a person before _________.
(a) Birth.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Death.
(d) Nightfall.

8. Rumi states, in "The Prophets" no one knows if the _______ will sink or reach the harbor.
(a) Camel.
(b) Vessel.
(c) Person.
(d) Car.

9. Rumi describes a ______ that wakes up one day to discover that he is "the entire vineyard, and the orchard too."
(a) Snake.
(b) Ferret.
(c) Bird.
(d) Worm.

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

11. Rumi advises the reader to disappear with the _________ each month and to bend like a tree limb.
(a) Animals.
(b) Sun.
(c) Tides.
(d) Moon.

12. Rumi encourages the reader to be the __________ nearest the thorn that he is, according to his writing.
(a) Ivy.
(b) Rose.
(c) Holly.
(d) Bush.

13. When a man is approached by a person who wants to bring his reluctant cousin to a spiritual leader, what is used to convince the cousin?
(a) Prayers.
(b) Fish soup.
(c) A promise for truth.
(d) Money.

14. 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) Hat.
(b) Pants.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Coat.

15. In one of the poems Rumi states, "We are charlatans... or maybe just a ______ hair brush in a painter's hand."
(a) Horse's.
(b) Dog's.
(c) Camel's.
(d) Goat's.

Short Answer Questions

1. The man compares himself to a __________ in the sunrise, saying that he is lost in his lover's reflection.

2. Love is more than an old study of _________, according to the writing of Rumi in this section.

3. Rumi suggests that "sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own ________."

4. Rumi slipped back into what ______ the Greek called the whole catastrophe as a living example of another possibility for life.

5. Rumi was able to take all the usual existential issues that human beings face on a daily basis and change them to ______.

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