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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. The poet says the reader is what every religion intends, urging _______ from love and from weeping.
(a) Calm.
(b) Order.
(c) Lessons.
(d) Madness.

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

3. The poet speaks of happiness for an unknown reason, and it becomes easy to ______, though the joy is inexplicable.
(a) Cry.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Smile.
(d) Surrender.

4. __________ makes Rumi fierce and tender, according to his own admission in one of his poems.
(a) Love.
(b) Truth.
(c) Hate.
(d) Learning.

5. Rumi suggests that people listen to his message with the ear that is in the center of the _______.
(a) Feet.
(b) Stomach.
(c) Chest.
(d) Forehead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Barks points out the use of the word "_______" in one of the poems to be intended for the end of a vigil.

2. The "___" is an illusion, according to Rumi, and this is why this part needs to be removed from the experience.

3. In a poem, Rumi asks the lion of the ________ to roar and rend open the writer, according to the content of the poem.

4. Barks reminds the reader about how often ______ is used as a piece of advice for calming one's self.

5. Who is the spiritual leader who is approached in order to see how a person might be coaxed into learning?

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