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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rise Up Nimbly and Go on Your Strange Journey.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ______ was killed on December 5, 1247, after being exiled and returning on several different occasions.
(a) Shiraz.
(b) Bestami.
(c) Moses.
(d) Shams.

2. Rumi lived most of his life in ______ Turkey which at the time was a great meeting place for many different cultures.
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Bestami.
(c) Konya,
(d) Balkh.

3. Rumi suggests that "sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own ________."
(a) Immortality.
(b) Love.
(c) Smallness.
(d) Immensity.

4. When Rumi died, he was mourned by members of all of the following religious groups except _______.
(a) Taoists.
(b) Christians
(c) Muslims.
(d) Jews.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi describes a ______ that wakes up one day to discover that he is "the entire vineyard, and the orchard too."

2. Rumi uses the metaphor of being sent to do a task by a King, and forgetting in the poem "The _____ Work".

3. Rumi instructs us to "consider what the prophets have done. ______ wore fire for an anklet, Moses spoke to the sea."

4. Rumi challenges us to "work in the ______ world as hard as we do in the visible" and to "be a companion with the prophets."

5. Rumi encourages the reader to be the __________ nearest the thorn that he is, according to his writing.

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