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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poet asks a reader to imagine returning to the place from whence they came and imagine being greeted with _________.
(a) Wine.
(b) Honor.
(c) Song.
(d) Dance.

2. The ________ speaking scripture brings the dead students of scripture to life, according to Rumi.
(a) Book.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Cloud.
(d) Stone.

3. The poet compares himself to a __________, stripped of its petals and of its leaves, within one of the poems.
(a) Violet.
(b) Rose hip.
(c) Daisy.
(d) Peony.

4. The poet calls out for his _____'s return and to re-live their union during the course of one of his poems.
(a) Lover.
(b) Mother.
(c) Brother.
(d) Friend.

5. What is the game that Rumi and Shams played, according to Barks, which brought them closer together?
(a) Truth or Dare.
(b) Softball.
(c) Chess.
(d) Poker.

6. __________ is the character Rumi describes as a metalworker, making new shapes out of locks and chains.
(a) David.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Jacob.

7. Rumi uses the metaphor of tilling the soil to plant trees and roses for the way that one breaks up the __________.
(a) Soul.
(b) Truth.
(c) Lessons one is taught.
(d) Love in one's life.

8. Shams points out that what everyone is actually worshiping is ___________, rather than a higher being.
(a) An idea.
(b) Nature.
(c) Each other.
(d) A song.

9. The poet speaks of being locked in a _________ and of someone who brings him good and forgives him.
(a) Thought.
(b) Jail.
(c) Room.
(d) Tree.

10. Bawa lived alone in a ________ before beginning to teach in Sri Lanka in the 1940s before moving to Philadelphia.
(a) Jungle.
(b) Igloo.
(c) Cave dwelling.
(d) Mountain.

11. Rumi's poem begins by stating that this state of being is the only _______ of which he knows.
(a) Water.
(b) Death.
(c) Truth.
(d) Peace.

12. Rumi decided to answer that he wrote so much because no ________ came from the radiance inside of him.
(a) Words.
(b) Truth.
(c) Peace.
(d) Understanding.

13. The poet has to ask Shams and _________ to help him, since he is partly within himself and partly outside of himself.
(a) Books.
(b) Sun.
(c) Peasant.
(d) Moon.

14. The robe of the teacher creates _________, according to Rumi, and the teacher also creates new life.
(a) Music.
(b) Weather.
(c) Peace.
(d) Violence.

15. The poet says the he would die into _______, as clouds might disappear into the sun, according to his writings.
(a) The moon.
(b) Love.
(c) Bliss.
(d) Shams.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet states that ________ don't prepare us for the journey we all have to make, according to one of the poems.

2. The poet says that he is a letter to everyone around him, a letter which says, "_______" according to the poet.

3. The poet speaks of happiness for an unknown reason, and it becomes easy to ______, though the joy is inexplicable.

4. Rumi describes a field, beyond right and wrong, where the ________ goes and loses ideas and language.

5. __________ in the presence, at the price of one's life, is a bargain, according to one of the poems of Rumi.

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