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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The Tavern : Chapter 2, Desire & New Silk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi's works are deeply:
(a) Sorrowful.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Irreverent.
(d) Emotional.

2. Many of Rumi's poems are so personal that they help readers reconnect to what?
(a) Childhood notions.
(b) Practical ideas.
(c) Their emotional centers.
(d) Their analytical sides.

3. In many of Rumi's poems, not only in Book 1, Chapter 2, but throughout the whole book, his distinction between "me" and "you" is what?
(a) Solid.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Clear.
(d) Vague.

4. In the end, where does the Caliph of a poem in Book 1, Chapter 2 send the mysterious, beautiful woman from the city his men have invaded?
(a) To another city.
(b) Back to her family.
(c) To a monastery.
(d) Back to the captain.

5. Who were Rumi's three main friends who inspired much of his poetry?
(a) Saladin, Ahmad, and Sherzi.
(b) Mehdi, Husam, and Malek.
(c) Amir, Shams, and Mohad.
(d) Shams, Saladin, and Husam.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did others regard Shams?

2. Saladin of Zarkub was what?

3. In the poems where Rumi includes a frog as one of the main characters, there is a deep friendship that develops between this frog and a:

4. Who is Coleman Barks?

5. According to a poem in Book 1, Chapter 2, what happens when you put pond water into a larger body of water?

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