The Essential Rumi Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Essential Rumi Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Before responding to the king's command in a poem in Book 1, Chapter 3, what does Ayaz do?
(a) Prays to God for guidance.
(b) Reads at least forty books to learn how others handled the situation.
(c) Consults with the King's daughter.
(d) Notices how at least thirty other men respond to the command.

2. In the story of a camel and a mouse found in Book 1, Chapter 3, what does the camel do when the two reach a body of water?
(a) Runs away.
(b) Encourages the mouse to continue.
(c) Takes a bath.
(d) Tosses the mouse into the water.

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

4. What is a Caliph?
(a) Leader.
(b) Student.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Teacher.

5. Much of Rumi's poetry is:
(a) Sarcastic.
(b) Passionate.
(c) Cryptic.
(d) Subdued.

Short Answer Questions

1. Coleman Barks is famous for what?

2. As the bond of friendship that Rumi writes about between a frog and its animal friend grows, the two animals find that their wish for each other's company:

3. The purpose of Coleman Barks' preambles to Rumi's poems is to:

4. In a poem in Book 1, Chapter 3, Rumi writes about a deer dying in the paws of a:

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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