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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Sufis are loved the world over for reminding us that the glory is our ______ reality and the opposite is a kind of language for expressing it.
(a) Surface.
(b) Inner.
(c) Outer.
(d) Lower.

3. Rumi urges the reader to let go of the _____, the covering clothes, and to be naked in the world, according to his writing.
(a) Truth.
(b) Outcome.
(c) Brain.
(d) Heart.

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

5. Rumi realizes that in all of his searching, he has actually been waiting to be _________ as opposed to brought inside.
(a) Destroyed.
(b) Believed.
(c) Devoured.
(d) Let out.

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

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

8. The pull of love is something Rumi compares to a ________, urging the reader to realize learning is about more than just books.
(a) Lute.
(b) Reed.
(c) Bugle.
(d) River.

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

10. Rumi suggests not doing the work God sent you for is "like using a priceless Indian _____ to cut rotten meat."
(a) Sword.
(b) Hatchet.
(c) Spear.
(d) Knife.

11. Not doing the work God sent you for is the equivalent of "using a _____ bowl to cook turnips in.
(a) Silver.
(b) Gold.
(c) Jeweled.
(d) Iron.

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

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

14. 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) Money.
(b) Prayers.
(c) Fish soup.
(d) A promise for truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi suggests that people listen to his message with the ear that is in the center of the _______.

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

3. When Rumi regained consciousness, he stated that _______ was the greater because he realized the breadth of God.

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

5. Rumi notes that the miracle of Jesus is ______, not what he did or said about the future, according to the poems.

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