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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dragon-Princess.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One poem, using nature imagery, reads, "Cheerful gift from the chillier / mountains / attempts to leap into ____."
(a) Spring.
(b) August.
(c) Summer.
(d) June.

2. What is the title of the poem which begins, "From indescribable transformation flash / such creations--: Feel! and trust!"?
(a) "Gong."
(b) "Greek Love-Talk."
(c) "Music."
(d) "Magic."

3. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."
(a) Nightingale.
(b) Butterfly.
(c) Ballerina.
(d) Sparrow.

4. In one untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties," the poet writes, "Give me, oh earth, pure _____ / clay for the jug of tears."
(a) Unmingling.
(b) Resistent.
(c) Unmitigated.
(d) Reserved.

5. In an untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Great star of love's priestesses, which _____ kindles from its own right."
(a) Feeling.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Heartbreak.
(d) Misery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mood notes in his introduction to Rilke's poetry that the poet was "in no way an _______, nor in his life."

2. In the poem, "Mausoleum," what punctuation does Rilke use in a nontraditional way, at the beginning of two lines?

3. What, with absinthe, "trickle through silent sieves of kisses of bitter essence"?

4. Which poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties" speaks of a king?

5. The translator claims that the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" deserve to take their place alongside whose great love poems?

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