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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Solomon Poems : Chapter 2, Beginning to the Turn.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened after Shams disappeared a second time?
(a) He never came back.
(b) He married and had five children.
(c) He went to work for another school.
(d) He fell off a cliff.

2. Chapter 2 of Book 2 includes a large quantity of:
(a) Animal fables.
(b) Ghost tales.
(c) War stories.
(d) Love stories.

3. The poem in Book 1, Chapter 2 about a man who accidentally soils himself includes lessons on which of the following?
(a) Release from shame.
(b) Illusions.
(c) Self-control.
(d) Strength and power.

4. In the poem in Book 1, Chapter 2, where several men fall in love with the same woman, her physical beauty is really a representation of what?
(a) Spiritual beauty.
(b) The passage of time.
(c) False hope.
(d) The illusion of happiness.

5. What does the fish with medium intelligence do in the tale of three fish in Book 2, Chapter 1?
(a) He finds a solution to his predicament.
(b) He eats two bugs.
(c) He laughs at the first fish.
(d) He rushes after the first fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to being one of his students and his scribe, Husam Chelebi was Rumi's:

2. Which of the following best describes the word exoteric?

3. When somebody goes looking for Kharraqani, he finds him doing what?

4. Through many of his poems, Rumi reveals the depth and diversity of different types of:

5. How did Rumi's father teach him?

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