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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through There Is a Breathing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Pain.
(c) Depression.
(d) Love.

2. In one of the poems, ______ cuts open a fish and discovers a gold ring. Omar storms in to kill the prophet.
(a) Solomon.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Shams.
(d) Tabriz.

3. Rumi describes the journey a person must make as drinking ______ like water and eating sunset, in his poems.
(a) Truth.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Moonshine.

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

5. In one poem, Rumi begins to describe two lovers who are ___________ and drinking water.
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Walking.
(c) Singing.
(d) Dancing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Rumi urges the reader to let go of the _____, the covering clothes, and to be naked in the world, according to his writing.

3. Not doing the work God sent you to do is like "pounding a _____ of the finest tempering to hang things on."

4. Fullness _______ the soul, while emptiness frees it, according to the writing of Rumi in the poem.

5. According to the book, Rumi lived by the idea that _______ is the religion instead of being tied to a particular paradigm.

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