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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Barks points out the use of the word "_______" in one of the poems to be intended for the end of a vigil.
(a) She.
(b) This.
(c) You.
(d) That.

2. What season does Rumi say it always is within the human soul, according to his writing?
(a) Winter.
(b) Spring.
(c) Summer.
(d) Autumn.

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

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

5. Rumi compares his soul to a drop in a spiritual _________ saying that it is always a certain season the human soul.
(a) Scripture.
(b) Ocean.
(c) Homily.
(d) Bucket.

6. The __________ inside of its cocoon is the metaphor which Rumi uses in order to discuss a man's journey into himself.
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Caterpillar.
(c) Snake.
(d) Silkworm.

7. Rumi stops his list of things which he uses to describe a friend within his poem in order to ______________.
(a) Dance his dance.
(b) Sing.
(c) Pray.
(d) Keep a bird from flying away.

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

9. The poet says the reader is what every religion intends, urging _______ from love and from weeping.
(a) Madness.
(b) Lessons.
(c) Calm.
(d) Order.

10. The robe of the teacher creates _________, according to Rumi, and the teacher also creates new life.
(a) Violence.
(b) Weather.
(c) Peace.
(d) Music.

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

12. Then, according to Rumi, the student felt love and became the __________ cast by the light of the teacher.
(a) Peace.
(b) Witness.
(c) Truth.
(d) Shadow.

13. The poet asks the reader what caused a __________ to open and to consume them within their lives.
(a) Candle.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Hole.
(d) Smoke.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Shams points out that what everyone is actually worshiping is ___________, rather than a higher being.

2. The poet says that he is a letter to everyone around him, a letter which says, "_______" according to the poet.

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

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

5. Rumi's poem begins by stating that this state of being is the only _______ of which he knows.

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