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

2. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."
(a) Son.
(b) Stars.
(c) Sun.
(d) Moon.

3. From talking to a ______ to eating cabbage broth, Rumi says that the tasks of everyday life bring a person into a spiritual realm.
(a) Barber.
(b) Peasant.
(c) Spouse.
(d) Priest.

4. Since the reed was cut from the bed, it has made a ___________ sound, according to the description by Rumi.
(a) Crying.
(b) Joyful.
(c) Mysterious.
(d) Angry.

5. The poet quotes Muhammad in one of the poems, saying that he will come take a person before _________.
(a) Birth.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Nightfall.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one of the poems Rumi states, "We are charlatans... or maybe just a ______ hair brush in a painter's hand."

2. Sufis are loved the world over for reminding us that the glory is our ______ reality and the opposite is a kind of language for expressing it.

3. Rumi realizes that in all of his searching, he has actually been waiting to be _________ as opposed to brought inside.

4. The _____________ who are there in the orchard do not matter, according to Rumi, along with the light and the wine.

5. Rumi describes the journey a person must make as drinking ______ like water and eating sunset, in his poems.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What will happen after the traveler's legs become tired during the journey?

3. What happens to the reed when it is cut, according to the writings of Rumi?

4. What does Rumi say has happened since he has been knocking on a door?

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

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

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

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

9. What happens when you fast, according to the narrator of the poem, in one of Rumi's writings?

10. To what does Rumi compare human beings who do not explore their own spirituality?

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