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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The Tavern : Chapter 3, Union through Rough Metaphor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi speaks of two distinct types of intelligence. One is cultivated from books and the other is what?
(a) Pre-existing within a person.
(b) Learned in the streets.
(c) Reserved for the highest masters.
(d) Unattainable.

2. In a poem in Book 1, Chapter 3 involving a complicated love triangle consisting of a man and two women, Rumi explores what subjects?
(a) Lust and disgust.
(b) Reconciliation, division, and uncertainty.
(c) Humor and tragedy.
(d) Love, jealousy, and fear.

3. What post did Rumi inherit?
(a) Treasurer.
(b) Sheik.
(c) King.
(d) Scribe.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Much of the works in this book focus on what type of relationships?

2. Rumi's poems focus on what aspect of life?

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

4. Who is Coleman Barks?

5. In addition to being a religious leader, Rumi was a what?

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