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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poem "Some Fill With Each Good _____" encourages people to give their most intimate affection to those who requite it.
(a) Rain.
(b) Wind.
(c) Snow.
(d) Sun.

2. "The Tender Mouth" speaks of offering one's ___________ to Earth after death, as Hafiz describes it.
(a) Body.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Soul.
(d) Book.

3. In the poem "We Have not Come to Take ________", Hafiz suggests that people run from those who threaten one's spiritual vision.
(a) Names.
(b) Prisoners.
(c) Cattle.
(d) Valuables.

4. Hafiz deals with the issue of men listening to their worst selves in the poem "______ Deals".
(a) Forthright.
(b) Straight.
(c) Crooked.
(d) Many.

5. Hafiz describes the ecstatic experience of his teacher's revelations of truth using the image of falling out of the windows in the poem "A _____ -Story House".
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The poem "____ You to My Body" describes Hafiz's desire to keep his students close and teach them all the time.

3. The poem "Against my Own _____" sensuously describes the long-sought presence of God.

4. Hafiz uses the image of being on a mule exploring God's wonder in the poem "The Mule Got Drunk and Lost in _____".

5. Hafiz describes God as a Golden ______ that takes the soul soaring in the poem titled "Lifts Beyond Conception".

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