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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. Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the remote town of _______ in what is now Afghanistan.
(a) Konya.
(b) Anatolia.
(c) Balkh.
(d) Bestami.

2. Rumi suggests "My _____ is from elsewhere. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."
(a) Mind.
(b) Soul.
(c) Spirit.
(d) Body.

3. Rumi advises the reader to disappear with the _________ each month and to bend like a tree limb.
(a) Tides.
(b) Sun.
(c) Moon.
(d) Animals.

4. Rumi suggests that human beings are like "some weird kind of ______ that wants to stay melted in the furnace."
(a) Iron.
(b) Silver.
(c) Lead.
(d) Gold.

5. "Sufis adore the darkness of the deep night, like the blackness of the ______ cloth, when conversation with the divine is easiest."
(a) Kaaba.
(b) Temple.
(c) Pillow.
(d) Cotton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi met his companion Shams of _______ , described as a "street boddhisattva", in the marketplace.

2. Those who do not wake to the truth, according to Rumi, are those who do not embrace the beauty of __________.

3. Rumi describes paying attention to the breath and letting go of the _______ with outward breaths.

4. Shams asks Rumi who is greater, Muhammad the messenger of God, or ______ a mystic who claimed to be one with God.

5. Rumi suggests that "sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own ________."

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What do Barks and Rumi have to say about the rhythms and the way that a person breathes in their life?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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