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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the game that Rumi and Shams played, according to Barks, which brought them closer together?
(a) Softball.
(b) Chess.
(c) Truth or Dare.
(d) Poker.

2. __________ makes Rumi fierce and tender, according to his own admission in one of his poems.
(a) Love.
(b) Hate.
(c) Learning.
(d) Truth.

3. When asked how long he would remain in pain, Rumi answered that he was a _________ and his friend was the whole night.
(a) Star.
(b) Student.
(c) Candle.
(d) Moonbeam.

4. The poet says that he is a letter to everyone around him, a letter which says, "_______" according to the poet.
(a) Honor.
(b) Love.
(c) Pray.
(d) Live.

5. Rumi's poem begins by stating that this state of being is the only _______ of which he knows.
(a) Death.
(b) Peace.
(c) Truth.
(d) Water.

6. Barks points out that Shams believed that Rumi wrote in _________ ways when he wrote to teach others.
(a) Two.
(b) Ten.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

7. Rumi talks to the reader about the desired kiss as the _________ coming up into the lips of a person.
(a) Soul.
(b) Truth.
(c) Respect.
(d) Lesson.

8. Rumi says that he does not regret love or passion, but owners everyone's __________, according to the writing.
(a) Paths.
(b) Lessons.
(c) Questions.
(d) Flaws.

9. Barks asks the reader to be in a state of _______ instead of reading about it, to live the connection about which Rumi speaks.
(a) Devotion.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Study.

10. The poet has to ask Shams and _________ to help him, since he is partly within himself and partly outside of himself.
(a) Peasant.
(b) Sun.
(c) Moon.
(d) Books.

11. The poet speaks of being locked in a _________ and of someone who brings him good and forgives him.
(a) Thought.
(b) Tree.
(c) Room.
(d) Jail.

12. Rumi confesses to wanting to have his teacher's __________ in order that he might fly too.
(a) Feet.
(b) Hands.
(c) Plane.
(d) Wings.

13. What images in the book does Barks say reflect the idea of openings within the world and in the poems?
(a) Windows.
(b) Doors.
(c) Birds.
(d) Cages.

14. The poet says the he would die into _______, as clouds might disappear into the sun, according to his writings.
(a) Shams.
(b) Love.
(c) Bliss.
(d) The moon.

15. Barks talks about a teacher, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, who taught both himself and MIchael Green, the book's __________.
(a) Illustrator.
(b) Publisher.
(c) Editor.
(d) Typesetter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi asks the reader to welcome all __________ in one's life, even the ones which are negative.

2. Bawa lived alone in a ________ before beginning to teach in Sri Lanka in the 1940s before moving to Philadelphia.

3. The poet says the reader is what every religion intends, urging _______ from love and from weeping.

4. Rumi describes a field, beyond right and wrong, where the ________ goes and loses ideas and language.

5. Rumi says to give up wanting what others hand and says that the day is a __________ day, according to his writing.

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