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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) Co-workers.
(c) Family.
(d) Friends.

2. Rumi uses the metaphor of being sent to do a task by a King, and forgetting in the poem "The _____ Work".
(a) Real.
(b) Easy.
(c) Hard.
(d) Fun.

3. The poet describes himself as being someone who wants little and who needs only a _____________.
(a) Piece of cheese.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Song.
(d) Half a loaf of bread.

4. Rumi suggests not doing the work God sent you for is "like using a priceless Indian _____ to cut rotten meat."
(a) Spear.
(b) Hatchet.
(c) Sword.
(d) Knife.

5. Not doing the work God sent you to do is like "pounding a _____ of the finest tempering to hang things on."
(a) Spear.
(b) Nail.
(c) Sword.
(d) Knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the game that Rumi and Shams played, according to Barks, which brought them closer together?

2. The poet says the he would die into _______, as clouds might disappear into the sun, according to his writings.

3. Who is the madman that wields a knife, the thing which is a nihilist that embraces destruction?

4. There is beauty in every meeting or gathering, the presence of _________, of 'the Friend' in one of Rumi's poems.

5. Not doing the work God sent you for is the equivalent of "using a _____ bowl to cook turnips in.

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