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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 welcome all __________ in one's life, even the ones which are negative.
(a) People.
(b) Lessons.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Animals.

2. Rumi tells the reader to start __________ on their own personal journey to enlightenment, according to one of the poems.
(a) Crawling.
(b) Skipping.
(c) Walking.
(d) Dancing.

3. Though the _________ tries to think and read to find his lover again, there is no help in it, he realizes.
(a) Mountain.
(b) Poet.
(c) Book.
(d) Flower.

4. The poet asks the reader to give everything, not to dull the drum's noise with a __________.
(a) Tear.
(b) Question.
(c) Rattle.
(d) Blanket.

5. Shams comes down from the ___________, the poet says, and the readers will become the doorkeepers.
(a) Stone.
(b) Ledge.
(c) Window.
(d) Roof.

6. Rumi describes a field, beyond right and wrong, where the ________ goes and loses ideas and language.
(a) Soul.
(b) Mind.
(c) Hand.
(d) Heart.

7. The poet compares himself to a __________, stripped of its petals and of its leaves, within one of the poems.
(a) Rose hip.
(b) Daisy.
(c) Violet.
(d) Peony.

8. "Come Back, My Friend" is a poem about the many times that Rumi has lost connection with his ___________.
(a) Studies.
(b) Loved one.
(c) Purpose.
(d) Home.

9. Shams points out that what everyone is actually worshiping is ___________, rather than a higher being.
(a) An idea.
(b) Nature.
(c) Each other.
(d) A song.

10. A _______ asks a man who is calling to Allah whether he has ever gotten a reply and then chastises the person for continuing to pray.
(a) Cynic.
(b) Book.
(c) Devil.
(d) Demon.

11. Rumi decided to answer that he wrote so much because no ________ came from the radiance inside of him.
(a) Words.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Truth.
(d) Peace.

12. There is beauty in every meeting or gathering, the presence of _________, of 'the Friend' in one of Rumi's poems.
(a) Masters.
(b) Love.
(c) Grains.
(d) Students.

13. Anyone or anything that is loved reflects the lover's ____________, according to Barks in relation to the Sufis.
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Truth.
(c) Peace.
(d) Goodness.

14. __________ is the character Rumi describes as a metalworker, making new shapes out of locks and chains.
(a) Jacob.
(b) David.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Joseph.

15. Rumi speaks in the poem mentioned in #157 about a _________ bringing him back to this lost connection.
(a) Book.
(b) Fragrance.
(c) Storm.
(d) Cloud.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the poet talks about tearing down the ___________, he is talking about tearing down the self.

2. When one begins to break down, Rumi says this is _________ and a feeling of being outside of time.

3. The __________ of the world around Rumi will become his clothes and his jewels, according to the teachings of Rumi's teacher.

4. Rumi describes love as many things which come to his heart, like a thousand ____________ in one grain.

5. Rumi uses the metaphor of tilling the soil to plant trees and roses for the way that one breaks up the __________.

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