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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 describes love as many things which come to his heart, like a thousand ____________ in one grain.
(a) Pieces.
(b) Truths.
(c) Wheat plants.
(d) Ideas.

2. Who is the madman that wields a knife, the thing which is a nihilist that embraces destruction?
(a) Trust.
(b) Love.
(c) Pity.
(d) Truth.

3. Rumi tells the reader to start __________ on their own personal journey to enlightenment, according to one of the poems.
(a) Crawling.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Skipping.
(d) Walking.

4. Anyone or anything that is loved reflects the lover's ____________, according to Barks in relation to the Sufis.
(a) Truth.
(b) Goodness.
(c) Spirituality.
(d) Peace.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi asks the reader to accept _________, as everything comes from a higher place, according to his writing.

2. The poet says the reader is what every religion intends, urging _______ from love and from weeping.

3. The poet asks the reader what caused a __________ to open and to consume them within their lives.

4. Rumi speaks of the surrendering to __________ which brings light to all one's flaws, within one of his poems.

5. The __________ inside of its cocoon is the metaphor which Rumi uses in order to discuss a man's journey into himself.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Rumi tell the reader to do in order to start their own spiritual journey, like Moses or Joseph did?

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

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

5. What are the three ways in which Rumi could write, according to Shams?

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

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

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

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

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

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