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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The writer continues to tell the reader to keep working, searching for __________ in the daily practice.
(a) Love.
(b) Water.
(c) Women.
(d) Answers.

2. Rumi asks the reader to let their _______ move them, playing music instead of reading as they go along.
(a) Intuition.
(b) Soul.
(c) Truth.
(d) Friends.

3. In one of the poems, ______ cuts open a fish and discovers a gold ring. Omar storms in to kill the prophet.
(a) Shams.
(b) Tabriz.
(c) Solomon.
(d) Jesus.

4. Rumi urges the reader to let go of the _____, the covering clothes, and to be naked in the world, according to his writing.
(a) Outcome.
(b) Truth.
(c) Heart.
(d) Brain.

5. Rumi doesn't want "wealth and position." He suggests that in this matter he is "______ resisting the most enormous magnet there is."
(a) Gold.
(b) Iron.
(c) Silver.
(d) Steel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."

2. The "___" is an illusion, according to Rumi, and this is why this part needs to be removed from the experience.

3. The poet notes that he is nothing, not from an origin story, not body or __________, according to the writing.

4. Who is the spiritual leader who is approached in order to see how a person might be coaxed into learning?

5. According to the book, when Rumi realized the greatness of Shams, he fell off his _______ unconscious.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story of Ramahrishna that Rumi tells at the start of this section of the book?

2. What happens with Joseph's shirt when he gives it to his brothers to help their father?

3. What is the profession of Rumi when Barks introduces him at the beginning of this book?

4. What doesn't matter in the midst of an orchard in the spring, according to the writings of Rumi?

5. What are some of the ways a person will be able to bring themselves into the present moment, according to Barks?

6. What does Zuleikha, an Egyptian woman in love with Joseph, do with the shirt that Joseph wears in the story?

7. What should a person do with their life instead of acting from fear, according to the writings of Rumi?

8. Where do human beings sit, according to the writings of Rumi, when they are in a prison?

9. Describe the metaphor Rumi uses when it comes to the black sky and the moon.

10. What happens after Joseph is sold into slavery by his brothers, according to the writings of Rumi?

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