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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Come to the Orchard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the spiritual leader who is approached in order to see how a person might be coaxed into learning?
(a) Ramakrishna.
(b) Bawa.
(c) Shams.
(d) Rumi.

2. Rumi suggests that human beings are like "some weird kind of ______ that wants to stay melted in the furnace."
(a) Lead.
(b) Iron.
(c) Gold.
(d) Silver.

3. Rumi slipped back into what ______ the Greek called the whole catastrophe as a living example of another possibility for life.
(a) Zorba.
(b) Tabriz.
(c) Manos.
(d) Zappa.

4. Rumi met his companion Shams of _______ , described as a "street boddhisattva", in the marketplace.
(a) Bestami.
(b) Tabriz.
(c) Balkh.
(d) Konya.

5. A baby __________ hears a whistling and is thus driven to fly into the sky, according to Rumi.
(a) Eagle.
(b) Pigeon.
(c) Hawk.
(d) Owl.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Rumi encourages the reader to be the __________ nearest the thorn that he is, according to his writing.

3. "Sufis adore the darkness of the deep night, like the blackness of the ______ cloth, when conversation with the divine is easiest."

4. Rumi's students saw ______ as a madman and he was eventually forced out of the area.

5. Rumi sent his son _______ to bring back his exiled companion. He was found playing cards with the future St. Francis of Assisi.

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