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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. Rumi compares daily spiritual practice to continuing to knock at a ___________ to eventually contact the joy inside.
(a) Tree.
(b) Rock.
(c) Door.
(d) Window.

2. "Sufis adore the darkness of the deep night, like the blackness of the ______ cloth, when conversation with the divine is easiest."
(a) Cotton.
(b) Kaaba.
(c) Pillow.
(d) Temple.

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

4. Rumi describes the journey a person must make as drinking ______ like water and eating sunset, in his poems.
(a) Moonshine.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Truth.

5. What is NOT one of the ways in which Rumi writes, according to Barks in his commentary piece?
(a) For no one.
(b) For himself.
(c) For others.
(d) For glory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi describes paying attention to the breath and letting go of the _______ with outward breaths.

2. 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.

3. In one of the poems Rumi states, "We are charlatans... or maybe just a ______ hair brush in a painter's hand."

4. Rumi suggests that "sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own ________."

5. Rumi was able to take all the usual existential issues that human beings face on a daily basis and change them to ______.

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