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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi asks the reader to let their _______ move them, playing music instead of reading as they go along.
(a) Friends.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Truth.
(d) Soul.

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Rumi asks when seeing the birds flying in frenzied patterns whether the one he _______ is everywhere.
(a) Avoids.
(b) Worships.
(c) Believes.
(d) Loves.

14. ______ means the sun, and Rumi often referred to him in his poetry which he began writing after his friend's death.
(a) Moses.
(b) Shiraz.
(c) Solomon.
(d) Shams.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Rumi died, he was mourned by members of all of the following religious groups except _______.

2. Rumi sent his son _______ to bring back his exiled companion. He was found playing cards with the future St. Francis of Assisi.

3. Rumi gives advice about how to deal with hardship, "The cure for the ______ is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed."

4. According to the book, Rumi lived by the idea that _______ is the religion instead of being tied to a particular paradigm.

5. Fullness _______ the soul, while emptiness frees it, according to the writing of Rumi in the poem.

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