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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first poem in Chapter 14 is called "A ____ For Your Head" in which Hafiz offers comfort to those exhausted by their trying to exist separate from God.
(a) Pillow.
(b) Cushion.
(c) Blanket.
(d) Lap.

2. What does Hafiz encourage people to let go of when he is writing his poem, "Find a Better Job"?
(a) Money.
(b) Peace.
(c) Stability.
(d) Worry.

3. The final poem of chapter ten is called "Too ______ " and describes the bliss of unity that Hafiz experiences.
(a) Blissful.
(b) Fantastic.
(c) Amazing.
(d) Wonderful.

4. The beauty of _________ makes believers expect to hear the voice of God in "Reaching Toward the Millet Fields."
(a) Creation.
(b) God.
(c) Sunshine.
(d) Wine.

5. 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 _____".
(a) Softly.
(b) Generously.
(c) Sweetly.
(d) Harshly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is getting ready for a cosmic celebration in "Then Winks" by Hafiz?

2. The relationship between teacher and ______ is so intimate that it feels like a marriage is the subject of the poem "I Want Both of Us".

3. Hafiz uses the image of God as the ocean and anger is the thing that sinks men's boats in the poem called "The Great _____".

4. In the poem "_____ Wandering" Hafiz describes the whole of creation as being as fragile as the sprout under a large animal.

5. Hafiz encourages people to bail from churches and cling to the lifeboats of poetry in the poem "The Great _____".

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the surrender to which Hafiz refers in "The Clay Bowl's Destiny"?

2. What is supposed to happen to all of creation, according to "Reverence," in this section of Hafiz's poems?

3. What happens within the poem and story in "Bring the Man to Me," according to this translation of Hafiz?

4. What is so important for the reader to learn from the poem, "Stay Close to the Sounds"?

5. What is God symbolized as in "Lousy at Math," according to this translation of Hafiz?

6. What is the metaphor that Hafiz uses in "Turn Left a Thousand Feet from Here"?

7. What does a poem in the book say Hafiz has used in order to become a lamp which needs no oil?

8. What does "What Should We Do About the Moon?" describe to the reader, from Hafiz's point of view?

9. What happens to Hafiz in the poem, "Cupping My Hands Like a Mountain Valley"?

10. What are supposed to be left at the door in "The Hatcheck Girl," according to this translation of Hafiz?

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