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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In a poem, Rumi asks the lion of the ________ to roar and rend open the writer, according to the content of the poem.
(a) Bear.
(b) Horse.
(c) Lion.
(d) Tiger.

4. Rumi notes there is only one search in the world: "___________ this world is wandering that..."
(a) Wandering.
(b) Living.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Knowing.

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

6. 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) Outer.
(b) Surface.
(c) Lower.
(d) Inner.

7. Rumi states "This _____ began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place I will be completely sober."
(a) Binge.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Lethargy.
(d) Drunkeness.

8. The poet quotes Muhammad in one of the poems, saying that he will come take a person before _________.
(a) Dawn.
(b) Birth.
(c) Nightfall.
(d) Death.

9. The ________ breath brings a presence, through the head to the heart, with a mantra, "God alone is real."
(a) Inward.
(b) Truth.
(c) Outward.
(d) Quiet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "The Prophets" the people wonder "How long should we keep pounding this cold _____?"

2. Rumi asks the reader to let their _______ move them, playing music instead of reading as they go along.

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

4. Rumi asks when seeing the birds flying in frenzied patterns whether the one he _______ is everywhere.

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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