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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 says the reader is what every religion intends, urging _______ from love and from weeping.
(a) Calm.
(b) Madness.
(c) Order.
(d) Lessons.

2. When asked how long he would remain in pain, Rumi answered that he was a _________ and his friend was the whole night.
(a) Star.
(b) Candle.
(c) Moonbeam.
(d) Student.

3. Bawa lived alone in a ________ before beginning to teach in Sri Lanka in the 1940s before moving to Philadelphia.
(a) Igloo.
(b) Mountain.
(c) Jungle.
(d) Cave dwelling.

4. Rumi speaks of the surrendering to __________ which brings light to all one's flaws, within one of his poems.
(a) Truth.
(b) Love.
(c) Innocence.
(d) Timelessness.

5. The poet asks a reader to imagine returning to the place from whence they came and imagine being greeted with _________.
(a) Wine.
(b) Dance.
(c) Song.
(d) Honor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi confesses to wanting to have his teacher's __________ in order that he might fly too.

2. Barks points out that Shams believed that Rumi wrote in _________ ways when he wrote to teach others.

3. What season does Rumi say it always is within the human soul, according to his writing?

4. Rumi uses the metaphor of tilling the soil to plant trees and roses for the way that one breaks up the __________.

5. Rumi asks the reader to make a __________, abhorring spiritual windowshoppers who are not giving fully of themselves.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rumi describe the idea of love in the last section of these poems?

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

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

4. What does Rumi think that cow might experience when they are in Baghdad?

5. What does the fragrance bring back to Rumi, when he's lost a connection to a loved one, according to the poem?

6. What does Barks ask a reader to do in relation to being in a state of spirituality?

7. How does Rumi describe the person named David in his writings and poems?

8. What do the Sufis think about love and about its ability to help people, according to the book?

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

10. What does Rumi have to say about the gamble of love and what does he urge the reader to do?

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