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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. When was Rumi born?
(a) December 15, 1461.
(b) October 20, 1390.
(c) September 30, 1207.
(d) November 26, 1119.

2. What is one of the central teachings of Rumi?
(a) The cultivation of love.
(b) The search for eternal youth.
(c) The desire for power.
(d) The elimination of sin.

3. Rumi's short-story poems range from less than fifty lines to approximately what length?
(a) A hundred twenty lines.
(b) Ten thousand lines.
(c) Two hundred lines.
(d) Two thousand lines.

4. According to Rumi, when the individual ego disappears and dissipates into God, this can be understood as what?
(a) False.
(b) True.
(c) Cause for confusion.
(d) Cause for celebration.

5. 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:
(a) Bird.
(b) Mouse.
(c) Fish.
(d) Cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which readers might feel left out reading Rumi's poems?

2. After reading Rumi's poems, Coleman Barks feels he has been:

3. When Coleman Barks first started reading Rumi's works, what types of words turned him away?

4. How did others regard Shams?

5. Most of Rumi's poems presented in this book exhibit what form?

(see the answer key)

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