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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the book, Rumi lived by the idea that _______ is the religion instead of being tied to a particular paradigm.
(a) Thought.
(b) Abstinence.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Love.

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

3. The Egyptian woman that is in love with Joseph is known as _______, clings to his shirt and tears it from his back.
(a) Nefertiti.
(b) Zulu.
(c) Isis.
(d) Zuleikha.

4. Rumi was able to take all the usual existential issues that human beings face on a daily basis and change them to ______.
(a) Light.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Lessons.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When Rumi died, he was mourned by members of all of the following religious groups except _______.

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

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

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