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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The _____________ who are there in the orchard do not matter, according to Rumi, along with the light and the wine.
(a) Birds.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Sweethearts.
(d) Students.

2. Every day, Rumi says, people wake up with _________, but they need to continue to walk their spiritual path.
(a) Disbelief.
(b) Fear.
(c) Joy.
(d) Rapture.

3. Not doing the work God sent you to do is like "pounding a _____ of the finest tempering to hang things on."
(a) Nail.
(b) Knife.
(c) Spear.
(d) Sword.

4. From talking to a ______ to eating cabbage broth, Rumi says that the tasks of everyday life bring a person into a spiritual realm.
(a) Peasant.
(b) Barber.
(c) Priest.
(d) Spouse.

5. Rumi challenges us to "work in the ______ world as hard as we do in the visible" and to "be a companion with the prophets."
(a) Invisible.
(b) Loving.
(c) Spiritual world.
(d) Infinite.

6. The writer continues to tell the reader to keep working, searching for __________ in the daily practice.
(a) Answers.
(b) Women.
(c) Water.
(d) Love.

7. Rumi suggests that "sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own ________."
(a) Smallness.
(b) Love.
(c) Immensity.
(d) Immortality.

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

9. When Rumi regained consciousness, he stated that _______ was the greater because he realized the breadth of God.
(a) Bestami.
(b) Muhammad.
(c) Balkh.
(d) Konya.

10. Whose table is spread with better food when a person fasts, according to Rumi?
(a) Allah's.
(b) Jehovah's.
(c) Muhammad's.
(d) Jesus'.

11. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."
(a) Stars.
(b) Sun.
(c) Son.
(d) Moon.

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

13. Rumi describes paying attention to the breath and letting go of the _______ with outward breaths.
(a) Fears.
(b) Self.
(c) Love.
(d) Attachments.

14. Rumi asserts in his poems that "the miracle of ______ is himself, not what he said or did about the future."
(a) Jesus.
(b) Gandhi.
(c) Buddha.
(d) Muhammad.

15. According to the book, when Rumi realized the greatness of Shams, he fell off his _______ unconscious.
(a) Horse.
(b) Elephant.
(c) Camel.
(d) Donkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi met his companion Shams of _______ , described as a "street boddhisattva", in the marketplace.

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

3. "Sufis adore the darkness of the deep night, like the blackness of the ______ cloth, when conversation with the divine is easiest."

4. Rumi's mystical work was contained within the patterns of ______ Sufism but the life was witness to the boundless universality of the heart.

5. The pull of love is something Rumi compares to a ________, urging the reader to realize learning is about more than just books.

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