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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 became joyous, and then died, and then became a fool, according to his writing, and then became scattered _________.
(a) Water.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Thought.
(d) Pebbles.

2. In a dream, according to Rumi, an _____________ in a garden of love reached out to call him forward.
(a) Old man.
(b) Old cook.
(c) Old woman.
(d) Old child.

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

4. Barks points out the use of the word "_______" in one of the poems to be intended for the end of a vigil.
(a) This.
(b) That.
(c) She.
(d) You.

5. Barks writes in the commentary that Rumi was asked once why we wrote so much since he valued ___________.
(a) Dance.
(b) Truth.
(c) Music.
(d) Silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bawa's teachings not only encouraged Barks, but they also encouraged Barks to bring Rumi to ____________.

2. The poet has to ask Shams and _________ to help him, since he is partly within himself and partly outside of himself.

3. The poet describes himself as being someone who wants little and who needs only a _____________.

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

5. Rumi compares his soul to a drop in a spiritual _________ saying that it is always a certain season the human soul.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rumi try to do in order to find his lover again, according to the writings of Rumi?

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

3. Why does the poet ask Shams and the Sun to help him in his poems, according to the writings of Rumi?

4. What are some of the things Rumi says are a part of a friend of all things?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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