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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi uses the metaphor of tilling the soil to plant trees and roses for the way that one breaks up the __________.
(a) Lessons one is taught.
(b) Soul.
(c) Love in one's life.
(d) Truth.

2. The ________ speaking scripture brings the dead students of scripture to life, according to Rumi.
(a) Cloud.
(b) Stone.
(c) Book.
(d) Teacher.

3. When one begins to break down, Rumi says this is _________ and a feeling of being outside of time.
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

4. When Rumi's teacher would wash his hands, the water would turn to ___________, according to Rumi.
(a) Light.
(b) Gold.
(c) Ash.
(d) Silver.

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

6. Who is the madman that wields a knife, the thing which is a nihilist that embraces destruction?
(a) Trust.
(b) Truth.
(c) Pity.
(d) Love.

7. 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) Devil.
(b) Book.
(c) Cynic.
(d) Demon.

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

9. Rumi also believes that a reader should _________, even if they don't mean it at first.
(a) Talk.
(b) Discuss.
(c) Sing.
(d) Pray.

10. Rumi wants the reader to know that embracing _________ transforms this into joy.
(a) Books.
(b) Animals.
(c) Hurt.
(d) Others.

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

12. 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.

13. Bawa's teachings not only encouraged Barks, but they also encouraged Barks to bring Rumi to ____________.
(a) The West.
(b) The publishing market.
(c) The Christians.
(d) The temples.

14. Rumi notes that everywhere a reader goes, they will perceive others as they themselves are, just as a _________ will ignore the amazing city of Baghdad.
(a) Ant.
(b) Child.
(c) Fly.
(d) Cow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The poets asks for a __________ to climb into the Friend, and the response is that this item is in the person's head.

2. Rumi compares his soul to a drop in a spiritual _________ saying that it is always a certain season the human soul.

3. Rumi speaks of the surrendering to __________ which brings light to all one's flaws, within one of his poems.

4. Barks writes in the commentary that Rumi was asked once why we wrote so much since he valued ___________.

5. Shams comes down from the ___________, the poet says, and the readers will become the doorkeepers.

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