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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through We Have Opened You.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shams comes down from the ___________, the poet says, and the readers will become the doorkeepers.
(a) Window.
(b) Stone.
(c) Ledge.
(d) Roof.

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. Shams asks Rumi who is greater, Muhammad the messenger of God, or ______ a mystic who claimed to be one with God.
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Bestami.
(c) Konya.
(d) Balkh.

4. The story of Joseph focuses on the loss of his _____ of many colors that has false blood on it to convince people of his death.
(a) Shoes.
(b) Pants.
(c) Coat.
(d) Hat.

5. Rumi says that humans should explore the reality of ____________, the grittiness of the soul and not live in the ideal.
(a) Books.
(b) Churches.
(c) Humanity.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rumi relishes things like walking, meditation, and fasting as they help to bring a person into ____________.

2. The poet says the he would die into _______, as clouds might disappear into the sun, according to his writings.

3. 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.

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

5. Rumi's mystical work was contained within the patterns of ______ Sufism but the life was witness to the boundless universality of the heart.

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