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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the poem "Your _____ and my _______" Hafiz describes the eternal communion between souls.
(a) Heart.
(b) Hand.
(c) Mother.
(d) Brother.

2. Hafiz uses the image of the ocean's defying gravity to symbolize a life in the supreme safety of "God's ______".
(a) Bowl.
(b) Bucket.
(c) Well.
(d) Chalice.

3. Hafiz encourages people to bail from churches and cling to the lifeboats of poetry in the poem "The Great _____".
(a) Religions.
(b) Lie.
(c) Travesties.
(d) Oppression.

4. The poem "A ____ in Each Act and Creature" describes the life-giving and earth-beautifying of the sun as an expression of divine affection.
(a) Keystone.
(b) Chord.
(c) Branch.
(d) Root.

5. Chapter one's poem's are more _______ and use imagery from nature, music, dining, fishing, hunting, etc.
(a) Complicated.
(b) Light-hearted.
(c) Elegant.
(d) Heavy-hearted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hafiz refers to the process of growing in love and knowledge by making oneself a student of a master in these things "The _____ Work".

2. Hafiz suggests that sometimes God wearies of softly spoken love and he wants to shake his children by the shoulders in the poem called "Tired of Speaking _____".

3. Hafiz is a __________ ready to be eaten in the poem, "Throw Me on a Scale" in this collection of poetry.

4. In the poem "The Old _____", Hafiz suggests that people regard each other with the gentle care the instrumentalist gives to his instruments.

5. The poem "This Sane Idea" asks that people leave their ______ behind when going on the search for God.

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