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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumi advises the reader to disappear with the _________ each month and to bend like a tree limb.
(a) Moon.
(b) Tides.
(c) Sun.
(d) Animals.

2. Rumi realizes that in all of his searching, he has actually been waiting to be _________ as opposed to brought inside.
(a) Destroyed.
(b) Devoured.
(c) Let out.
(d) Believed.

3. Rumi gives a definition for what we are, "You are the strange business. You have the energy of the ______ in you."
(a) Moon.
(b) Sun.
(c) Son.
(d) Stars.

4. Whose table is spread with better food when a person fasts, according to Rumi?
(a) Allah's.
(b) Muhammad's.
(c) Jehovah's.
(d) Jesus'.

5. Rumi doesn't want "wealth and position." He suggests that in this matter he is "______ resisting the most enormous magnet there is."
(a) Gold.
(b) Steel.
(c) Silver.
(d) Iron.

6. "Sufis adore the darkness of the deep night, like the blackness of the ______ cloth, when conversation with the divine is easiest."
(a) Pillow.
(b) Temple.
(c) Kaaba.
(d) Cotton.

7. Rumi notes there is only one search in the world: "___________ this world is wandering that..."
(a) Breathing.
(b) Wandering.
(c) Knowing.
(d) Living.

8. Rumi relishes things like walking, meditation, and fasting as they help to bring a person into ____________.
(a) The connection with God.
(b) The moment.
(c) Themselves.
(d) A new love.

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

10. _______ was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt , gradually came to power there, and made a complicated trade route.
(a) Joseph.
(b) Jacob.
(c) Esau.
(d) Jesus.

11. The poet notes that he is nothing, not from an origin story, not body or __________, according to the writing.
(a) Truth.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Endings.
(d) Soul.

12. Rumi encourages the reader to be the __________ nearest the thorn that he is, according to his writing.
(a) Bush.
(b) Ivy.
(c) Rose.
(d) Holly.

13. The _________ represents the imagination where the spiritual journey takes place, according to Rumi.
(a) Closet.
(b) Ocean.
(c) Cave.
(d) Orchard.

14. _________, according to Rumi, will tend to accumulate while the real work is going on elsewhere.
(a) Truths.
(b) Coins.
(c) Trust.
(d) Connections.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The journey is a practice of ____________, rather than studying or learning with logic from the mind.

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

4. According to the book, the eye is for _______; the soul for joy. The head is for loving; the legs for running.

5. Rumi suggests that "sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own ________."

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