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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. Rumi suggests that human beings are like "some weird kind of ______ that wants to stay melted in the furnace."
(a) Gold.
(b) Iron.
(c) Lead.
(d) Silver.

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

3. Rumi's poetry can be thought of as a conversation with _______, a discussion of what it is to be together in God.
(a) Shams.
(b) Moses.
(c) Muhammad.
(d) St. Francis.

4. _______ was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt , gradually came to power there, and made a complicated trade route.
(a) Jesus.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Esau.
(d) Jacob.

5. Rumi gives advice about how to deal with hardship, "The cure for the ______ is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed."
(a) Disease.
(b) Depression.
(c) Love.
(d) Pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. The _____ in which Joseph sits in darkness at the bottom of is recognized as a visionary place.

2. Anger is the main topic that Rumi explores in the poem entitled "A ______ Sky Hates the Moon."

3. In the poem "The Prophets" the people wonder "How long should we keep pounding this cold _____?"

4. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."

5. Rumi states that "the human shape is a _______ made of distraction and pain, trying to open the image of itself."

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