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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 Egyptian woman that is in love with Joseph is known as _______, clings to his shirt and tears it from his back.
(a) Zulu.
(b) Zuleikha.
(c) Isis.
(d) Nefertiti.

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

3. Rumi believes humans have an inherent instinct to be on a ___________, just a a bird is driven to fly.
(a) House.
(b) Mission.
(c) Journey.
(d) Branch.

4. Who is the spiritual leader who is approached in order to see how a person might be coaxed into learning?
(a) Bawa.
(b) Shams.
(c) Rumi.
(d) Ramakrishna.

5. Rumi instructs us to "consider what the prophets have done. ______ wore fire for an anklet, Moses spoke to the sea."
(a) Joseph.
(b) Solomon.
(c) David.
(d) Abraham.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the book, Rumi lived by the idea that _______ is the religion instead of being tied to a particular paradigm.

3. The _________ represents the imagination where the spiritual journey takes place, according to Rumi.

4. The poet quotes Muhammad in one of the poems, saying that he will come take a person before _________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the metaphor Rumi uses to urge the reader to take risks in their life?

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

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

4. What does Rumi realize about his friend Shams when he doesn't believe that he is actually dead?

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

6. What is the metaphor Rumi uses in order to describe the pull of love in one's life and how one should be pulled by love?

7. After the narrator says they are no religion or culture, not east or west, what does the narrator say they do belong to?

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

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

10. What does Barks have to say about Rumi as being a True Human Being? What does Barks say this means?

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