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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Path of Blame.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Rumi speaks of the surrendering to __________ which brings light to all one's flaws, within one of his poems.
(a) Timelessness.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Love.
(d) Truth.
2. Fullness _______ the soul, while emptiness frees it, according to the writing of Rumi in the poem.
(a) Engages.
(b) Fills.
(c) Oppresses.
(d) Depletes.
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.
(a) Demon.
(b) Book.
(c) Devil.
(d) Cynic.
4. Rumi gives advice about how to deal with hardship, "The cure for the ______ is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed."
(a) Depression.
(b) Pain.
(c) Love.
(d) Disease.
5. The _____________ who are there in the orchard do not matter, according to Rumi, along with the light and the wine.
(a) Birds.
(b) Sweethearts.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Students.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whose table is spread with better food when a person fasts, according to Rumi?
2. Those who do not wake to the truth, according to Rumi, are those who do not embrace the beauty of __________.
3. Rumi realizes that in all of his searching, he has actually been waiting to be _________ as opposed to brought inside.
4. Rumi instructs us to "consider what the prophets have done. ______ wore fire for an anklet, Moses spoke to the sea."
5. The __________ is the reason for the praying, according to Allah, as Rumi recollects in one of his poems.
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