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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Whole Catastrophe.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Rumi doesn't want "wealth and position." He suggests that in this matter he is "______ resisting the most enormous magnet there is."
(a) Steel.
(b) Gold.
(c) Silver.
(d) Iron.
2. Rumi's mystical work was contained within the patterns of ______ Sufism but the life was witness to the boundless universality of the heart.
(a) Islamic,
(b) Jain.
(c) Buddhist.
(d) Christian.
3. Anger is the main topic that Rumi explores in the poem entitled "A ______ Sky Hates the Moon."
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Blue.
4. According to the book, Rumi lived by the idea that _______ is the religion instead of being tied to a particular paradigm.
(a) Love.
(b) Thought.
(c) Abstinence.
(d) Prayer.
5. ______ was killed on December 5, 1247, after being exiled and returning on several different occasions.
(a) Shams.
(b) Bestami.
(c) Shiraz.
(d) Moses.
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 Rumi states, "We are charlatans... or maybe just a ______ hair brush in a painter's hand."
3. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."
4. When Rumi died, he was mourned by members of all of the following religious groups except _______.
5. ______ means the sun, and Rumi often referred to him in his poetry which he began writing after his friend's death.
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