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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Path of Blame.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The __________ is the reason for the praying, according to Allah, as Rumi recollects in one of his poems.
(a) Truth.
(b) Kneeling.
(c) Beginning.
(d) Longing.

2. Rumi states "This _____ began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place I will be completely sober."
(a) Drunkeness.
(b) Lethargy.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) Binge.

3. Rumi instructs us to "consider what the prophets have done. ______ wore fire for an anklet, Moses spoke to the sea."
(a) David.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Abraham.
(d) Solomon.

4. The "___" is an illusion, according to Rumi, and this is why this part needs to be removed from the experience.
(a) Correctedness.
(b) I.
(c) Lesson.
(d) Truth.

5. The pull of love is something Rumi compares to a ________, urging the reader to realize learning is about more than just books.
(a) Reed.
(b) Bugle.
(c) River.
(d) Lute.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."

2. The poet notes that he is nothing, not from an origin story, not body or __________, according to the writing.

3. A _______ asks a man who is calling to Allah whether he has ever gotten a reply and then chastises the person for continuing to pray.

4. Rumi doesn't want "wealth and position." He suggests that in this matter he is "______ resisting the most enormous magnet there is."

5. In the poem, "Give ______ slowly" Rumi uses the new moon as a metaphor for patients and slowness in creation.

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