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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Barks writes in the commentary that Rumi was asked once why we wrote so much since he valued ___________.
(a) Truth.
(b) Dance.
(c) Music.
(d) Silence.

3. The soul, says Rumi, is in the shape of a ___________, according to one of his many poems.
(a) Heart.
(b) Thought.
(c) Stone.
(d) Bowl.

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

5. Rumi became joyous, and then died, and then became a fool, according to his writing, and then became scattered _________.
(a) Pebbles.
(b) Water.
(c) Thought.
(d) Smoke.

6. It is essential, according to Rumi, to know of the __________, which may sometimes be open and sometimes closed.
(a) Door.
(b) Window.
(c) Heart.
(d) Soul.

7. Bawa lived alone in a ________ before beginning to teach in Sri Lanka in the 1940s before moving to Philadelphia.
(a) Cave dwelling.
(b) Igloo.
(c) Jungle.
(d) Mountain.

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

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

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

11. When the poet talks about tearing down the ___________, he is talking about tearing down the self.
(a) House.
(b) Wall.
(c) Books.
(d) Rocks.

12. The poet describes _________ appearing at the footsteps of his teacher, in one of his poems in this section.
(a) Flowers.
(b) Books.
(c) Puddles.
(d) Gold pieces.

13. In a dream, according to Rumi, an _____________ in a garden of love reached out to call him forward.
(a) Old cook.
(b) Old man.
(c) Old woman.
(d) Old child.

14. Rumi says that humans should explore the reality of ____________, the grittiness of the soul and not live in the ideal.
(a) Churches.
(b) Humanity.
(c) God.
(d) Books.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Then, according to Rumi, the student felt love and became the __________ cast by the light of the teacher.

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

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

4. What season does Rumi say it always is within the human soul, according to his writing?

5. Lovers have to ________________, but they will find something of infinite value, according to the writing of Rumi.

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