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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 poet calls out for his _____'s return and to re-live their union during the course of one of his poems.
(a) Brother.
(b) Mother.
(c) Friend.
(d) Lover.

2. When one begins to break down, Rumi says this is _________ and a feeling of being outside of time.
(a) Winter.
(b) Spring.
(c) Summer.
(d) Fall.

3. Though the _________ tries to think and read to find his lover again, there is no help in it, he realizes.
(a) Flower.
(b) Mountain.
(c) Poet.
(d) Book.

4. Rumi wants the reader to know that embracing _________ transforms this into joy.
(a) Animals.
(b) Hurt.
(c) Books.
(d) Others.

5. The poet states that ________ don't prepare us for the journey we all have to make, according to one of the poems.
(a) Chants.
(b) Words.
(c) Presents.
(d) Prayers.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet speaks of being locked in a _________ and of someone who brings him good and forgives him.

2. Rumi became joyous, and then died, and then became a fool, according to his writing, and then became scattered _________.

3. Shams comes down from the ___________, the poet says, and the readers will become the doorkeepers.

4. Then, according to Rumi, the student felt love and became the __________ cast by the light of the teacher.

5. The poet describes _________ appearing at the footsteps of his teacher, in one of his poems in this section.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as the result of surrendering to love, according to the writings of Rumi?

2. What happens during the chess game between Shams and Rumi, according to Barks?

3. What does the teacher say about speaking scripture, according to the writings of Rumi?

4. What does Barks say that openings are a place for, according to his commentary in this section?

5. What is essential in the windows of one heart to another, according to the writings of Rumi?

6. What are the differences that Rumi says do not exist in the garden of mystic lovers?

7. When Shams asks about if the drop stays still in the ocean, what does he tell Rumi to do?

8. What does Rumi say that he doesn't regret in his life, according to one of his poems?

9. What happened to his crying when the poet was brought to life, according to the writings of Rumi?

10. What happened as a result of Zuleikha loving Joseph so much that he became everything to her?

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