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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through We Have Opened You.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "______ think they're looking for each other, but there's only one search: wandering the world."
(a) Lovers.
(b) Friends.
(c) Co-workers.
(d) Family.

2. When the poet talks about tearing down the ___________, he is talking about tearing down the self.
(a) Books.
(b) Wall.
(c) House.
(d) Rocks.

3. Lovers have to ________________, but they will find something of infinite value, according to the writing of Rumi.
(a) Fall into a hole.
(b) Fight with each other.
(c) Know the truth.
(d) Separate.

4. Barks points out the use of the word "_______" in one of the poems to be intended for the end of a vigil.
(a) That.
(b) You.
(c) She.
(d) This.

5. Who is the madman that wields a knife, the thing which is a nihilist that embraces destruction?
(a) Truth.
(b) Love.
(c) Trust.
(d) Pity.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poets asks for a __________ to climb into the Friend, and the response is that this item is in the person's head.

2. Shams comes down from the ___________, the poet says, and the readers will become the doorkeepers.

3. __________ in the presence, at the price of one's life, is a bargain, according to one of the poems of Rumi.

4. Rumi gives advice about how to deal with hardship, "The cure for the ______ is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed."

5. Rumi stops his list of things which he uses to describe a friend within his poem in order to ______________.

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