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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 notes that everywhere a reader goes, they will perceive others as they themselves are, just as a _________ will ignore the amazing city of Baghdad.
(a) Cow.
(b) Ant.
(c) Fly.
(d) Child.

2. Rumi believes humans have an inherent instinct to be on a ___________, just a a bird is driven to fly.
(a) Mission.
(b) House.
(c) Branch.
(d) Journey.

3. Rumi also believes that a reader should _________, even if they don't mean it at first.
(a) Pray.
(b) Discuss.
(c) Sing.
(d) Talk.

4. There is beauty in every meeting or gathering, the presence of _________, of 'the Friend' in one of Rumi's poems.
(a) Grains.
(b) Masters.
(c) Love.
(d) Students.

5. Rumi doesn't want "wealth and position." He suggests that in this matter he is "______ resisting the most enormous magnet there is."
(a) Iron.
(b) Silver.
(c) Steel.
(d) Gold.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The poet calls out for his _____'s return and to re-live their union during the course of one of his poems.

3. The poets asks for a __________ to climb into the Friend, and the response is that this item is in the person's head.

4. The __________ of the world around Rumi will become his clothes and his jewels, according to the teachings of Rumi's teacher.

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

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