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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hafiz won the admiration of the Zoroastrian master ______ who said that Hafiz's poetry contains all the secrets of the spiritual path.
(a) Jalaluddin Rumi.
(b) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(c) Meher Baba.
(d) Tabriz.

3. Hafiz uses agricultural images to express the idea that humans are God's precious crop in the poem "His Winter _____".
(a) Light.
(b) Crop.
(c) Solstice.
(d) Harvest.

4. Hafiz encourages believers to make themselves sources of love and hope in the poem "Like a Life-Giving _____".
(a) Planet.
(b) Moon.
(c) Sun.
(d) Earth.

5. Hafiz instructs people to learn to see cause to celebrate even the mundane in the poem "If the Falling of a _____"
(a) Paw.
(b) Foot.
(c) Horseshoe.
(d) Hoof.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hafiz uses the image of all creation applauding in the warm gaze of God in the poem "Life Starts ______".

3. According to Ladinsky, Hafiz wrote between _______ poems, some of which were destroyed by fundamentalist Islamic leaders.

4. The poem "Startled by God" uses the image of _____ startled by a broken stick.

5. Hafiz believed that a Perfect Master personifies all of the following qualities except _______ and expresses them in every activity of life.

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