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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Whole Catastrophe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi's students saw ______ as a madman and he was eventually forced out of the area.
(a) Bestami.
(b) Shams.
(c) Balkh.
(d) Muhammad.

2. Anger is the main topic that Rumi explores in the poem entitled "A ______ Sky Hates the Moon."
(a) Yellow.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

3. Rumi states that "the human shape is a _______ made of distraction and pain, trying to open the image of itself."
(a) Bowl.
(b) Circle.
(c) Ghost.
(d) Sphere.

4. Sufis are loved the world over for reminding us that the glory is our ______ reality and the opposite is a kind of language for expressing it.
(a) Outer.
(b) Inner.
(c) Surface.
(d) Lower.

5. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."
(a) Son.
(b) Sun.
(c) Moon.
(d) Stars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shams asks Rumi who is greater, Muhammad the messenger of God, or ______ a mystic who claimed to be one with God.

2. In one of the poems, ______ cuts open a fish and discovers a gold ring. Omar storms in to kill the prophet.

3. Rumi states "This _____ began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place I will be completely sober."

4. According to the book, Rumi lived by the idea that _______ is the religion instead of being tied to a particular paradigm.

5. Rumi refers to the field that develops between the formless source and form ______ a personified image.

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