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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Come to the Orchard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi asks when seeing the birds flying in frenzied patterns whether the one he _______ is everywhere.
(a) Loves.
(b) Believes.
(c) Avoids.
(d) Worships.

2. The journey is a practice of ____________, rather than studying or learning with logic from the mind.
(a) Falling.
(b) Experiencing.
(c) Practicing.
(d) Jumping.

3. Rumi uses the metaphor of being sent to do a task by a King, and forgetting in the poem "The _____ Work".
(a) Hard.
(b) Easy.
(c) Real.
(d) Fun.

4. Rumi states "This _____ began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place I will be completely sober."
(a) Lethargy.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Drunkeness.
(d) Binge.

5. Rumi states, in "The Prophets" no one knows if the _______ will sink or reach the harbor.
(a) Vessel.
(b) Car.
(c) Camel.
(d) Person.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi asks the reader to let their _______ move them, playing music instead of reading as they go along.

2. Love is more than an old study of _________, according to the writing of Rumi in this section.

3. Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the remote town of _______ in what is now Afghanistan.

4. Every day, Rumi says, people wake up with _________, but they need to continue to walk their spiritual path.

5. "Sufis adore the darkness of the deep night, like the blackness of the ______ cloth, when conversation with the divine is easiest."

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