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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. Rumi sent his son _______ to bring back his exiled companion. He was found playing cards with the future St. Francis of Assisi.
(a) Sultan Veled.
(b) Sultan Balkh.
(c) Moses.
(d) Solomon.

2. Shams asks Rumi who is greater, Muhammad the messenger of God, or ______ a mystic who claimed to be one with God.
(a) Balkh.
(b) Bestami.
(c) Konya.
(d) Tabriz.

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

4. Not doing the work God sent you to do is like "pounding a _____ of the finest tempering to hang things on."
(a) Nail.
(b) Knife.
(c) Spear.
(d) Sword.

5. Rumi gives advice about how to deal with hardship, "The cure for the ______ is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed."
(a) Pain.
(b) Depression.
(c) Disease.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Rumi regained consciousness, he stated that _______ was the greater because he realized the breadth of God.

2. Rumi suggests that human beings are like "some weird kind of ______ that wants to stay melted in the furnace."

3. Rumi's students saw ______ as a madman and he was eventually forced out of the area.

4. Rumi states, in "The Prophets" no one knows if the _______ will sink or reach the harbor.

5. Rumi states "This _____ began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place I will be completely sober."

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are the amazing things prophets have done, according to the writings of Rumi?

4. What will happen to a person's present life when they are going on a spiritual journey, according to the writings of Rumi?

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

6. What is the question Shams asks Rumi, which leads Rumi to believe that Shams is a great person?

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

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

9. Who does Rumi say will not be able to wake to the truth, according to the writings of Rumi?

10. What is the real work of human beings, according to the writings of Rumi?

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