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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the chapter's closing poem "That Magnificent ______", Hafiz compares himself to a cypress.
(a) Storm.
(b) Rainbow.
(c) Being.
(d) Tree.

2. Hafiz is said to have devoted himself to a ______ day vigil at the tomb of a saint said to be able to grant the deepest desires of anyone.
(a) Fifty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Forty.

3. Hafiz believed that a Perfect Master personifies all of the following qualities except _______ and expresses them in every activity of life.
(a) Perfect love.
(b) Perfect joy.
(c) Perfect health.
(d) Perfect knowing.

4. The poem "Looking for a Good Fish" uses the metaphor of shopping in the wrong markets and following _____ into deserts.
(a) Water Buffalo.
(b) Dumb Animals.
(c) Footprints.
(d) Camels.

5. The poem "A Hunting Party" makes the suggestion that the search for spiritual nourishment should take place ______.
(a) Individually.
(b) In a community.
(c) As a family.
(d) As a couple.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hafiz won the admiration of the Zoroastrian master ______ who said that Hafiz's poetry contains all the secrets of the spiritual path.

2. According to the Islamic fundamentalist leaders, it was ______ to claim intimacy with the divine.

3. In the poem "We Have not Come to Take ________", Hafiz suggests that people run from those who threaten one's spiritual vision.

4. Hafiz became a ______ master in his sixties after studying for decades and trying to win the heart of a local beauty.

5. In the poem "Curfews" ______ is the key to freedom that Hafiz offers to the reader.

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