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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) Silver.
(b) Iron.
(c) Lead.
(d) Gold.

2. Rumi doesn't want "wealth and position." He suggests that in this matter he is "______ resisting the most enormous magnet there is."
(a) Iron.
(b) Gold.
(c) Steel.
(d) Silver.

3. Love is more than an old study of _________, according to the writing of Rumi in this section.
(a) Sculpture.
(b) Art.
(c) Religion.
(d) Honor.

4. Joseph gives his Egyptian shirt to his ______ to lay over the eyes of Jacob, whose vision is then restored.
(a) Brothers.
(b) Mother.
(c) Sisters.
(d) Father.

5. Rumi slipped back into what ______ the Greek called the whole catastrophe as a living example of another possibility for life.
(a) Zappa.
(b) Manos.
(c) Zorba.
(d) Tabriz.

6. The Egyptian woman that is in love with Joseph is known as _______, clings to his shirt and tears it from his back.
(a) Nefertiti.
(b) Zuleikha.
(c) Zulu.
(d) Isis.

7. Rumi states that "the human shape is a _______ made of distraction and pain, trying to open the image of itself."
(a) Circle.
(b) Sphere.
(c) Ghost.
(d) Bowl.

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

9. _________, according to Rumi, will tend to accumulate while the real work is going on elsewhere.
(a) Trust.
(b) Truths.
(c) Connections.
(d) Coins.

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

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

12. Rumi instructs us to "consider what the prophets have done. ______ wore fire for an anklet, Moses spoke to the sea."
(a) Joseph.
(b) Abraham.
(c) Solomon.
(d) David.

13. 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) Infinite.
(c) Spiritual world.
(d) Loving.

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

15. The _________ represents the imagination where the spiritual journey takes place, according to Rumi.
(a) Closet.
(b) Ocean.
(c) Cave.
(d) Orchard.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Rumi realizes that in all of his searching, he has actually been waiting to be _________ as opposed to brought inside.

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

4. Rumi compares daily spiritual practice to continuing to knock at a ___________ to eventually contact the joy inside.

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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