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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi lived most of his life in ______ Turkey which at the time was a great meeting place for many different cultures.
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Balkh.
(c) Bestami.
(d) Konya,

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

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

4. Anger is the main topic that Rumi explores in the poem entitled "A ______ Sky Hates the Moon."
(a) Black.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

5. 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) Spouse.
(d) Priest.

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

7. The destination may be unclear for __________ understanding, according to Rumi, but one should walk anyway.
(a) Animal.
(b) Better.
(c) Human.
(d) Childlike.

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

9. The _____ in which Joseph sits in darkness at the bottom of is recognized as a visionary place.
(a) Well.
(b) Cellar.
(c) Cave.
(d) House.

10. According to the book, Rumi lived by the idea that _______ is the religion instead of being tied to a particular paradigm.
(a) Love.
(b) Abstinence.
(c) Thought.
(d) Prayer.

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

12. Rumi points out that while others are laughing and dancing, there are few who will hear the ________ hidden within the notes.
(a) Beliefs.
(b) Treasures.
(c) Chants.
(d) Secrets.

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

14. Rumi compares daily spiritual practice to continuing to knock at a ___________ to eventually contact the joy inside.
(a) Rock.
(b) Window.
(c) Door.
(d) Tree.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The journey is a practice of ____________, rather than studying or learning with logic from the mind.

2. The "___" is an illusion, according to Rumi, and this is why this part needs to be removed from the experience.

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

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. Rumi states "This _____ began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place I will be completely sober."

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