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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Come Back, My Friend.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Rumi notes there is nothing worse than going to ______ without another person, the vague 'you.'
(a) Walk along the street.
(b) Eat.
(c) Pray.
(d) Read.

3. Rumi stops his list of things which he uses to describe a friend within his poem in order to ______________.
(a) Keep a bird from flying away.
(b) Dance his dance.
(c) Sing.
(d) Pray.

4. Lovers have to ________________, but they will find something of infinite value, according to the writing of Rumi.
(a) Separate.
(b) Fall into a hole.
(c) Fight with each other.
(d) Know the truth.

5. Barks compares humans talking about God to fish talking about the _________, in his commentary.
(a) Air.
(b) Sea.
(c) Sun.
(d) Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. The journey is a practice of ____________, rather than studying or learning with logic from the mind.

2. _______ was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt , gradually came to power there, and made a complicated trade route.

3. Rumi asks the reader to let their _______ move them, playing music instead of reading as they go along.

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

5. Rumi advises the reader to disappear with the _________ each month and to bend like a tree limb.

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