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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. Who is the spiritual leader who is approached in order to see how a person might be coaxed into learning?
(a) Shams.
(b) Ramakrishna.
(c) Rumi.
(d) Bawa.

2. Rumi refers to the field that develops between the formless source and form ______ a personified image.
(a) The friend.
(b) The mother.
(c) The father.
(d) The daughter.

3. Rumi's "story gets told in various ways" including all of the following except________. He recommends that others not get too close to him.
(a) A funeral.
(b) A dirty joke.
(c) A war.
(d) A romance.

4. Rumi instructs us to "consider what the prophets have done. ______ wore fire for an anklet, Moses spoke to the sea."
(a) David.
(b) Abraham.
(c) Solomon.
(d) Joseph.

5. A baby __________ hears a whistling and is thus driven to fly into the sky, according to Rumi.
(a) Pigeon.
(b) Owl.
(c) Hawk.
(d) Eagle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sufis are loved the world over for reminding us that the glory is our ______ reality and the opposite is a kind of language for expressing it.

2. Rumi notes that the miracle of Jesus is ______, not what he did or said about the future, according to the poems.

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

4. Joseph gives his Egyptian shirt to his ______ to lay over the eyes of Jacob, whose vision is then restored.

5. Since the reed was cut from the bed, it has made a ___________ sound, according to the description by Rumi.

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