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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mood writes in the introduction to "The Dragon-Princess," "Unambiguous affirmation is" what?
(a) Sentimentality.
(b) Naive.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Truth.

2. In Part III of "The Seven Phallic Poems," Rilke writes, "Granted by you, the image of the ____ stands/at the gentle crossroads under my clothes."
(a) God.
(b) Tower.
(c) Madonna.
(d) Flower.

3. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," that "fear of the inexplicable has not alone ______ the existence of the individual."
(a) Blinded.
(b) Impoverished.
(c) Killed.
(d) Drowned.

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

5. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke suggests that we hold our life to the most difficult, and that which now "still seems to us the most alien will become" what?
(a) What we most trust.
(b) What frees us.
(c) What kills us.
(d) What blinds us.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which poem does Rilke begin, "She who sleeps... To be so very awake, / near pure waking, that we into sleepers grow"?

2. One poem, using nature imagery, reads, "Cheerful gift from the chillier / mountains / attempts to leap into ____."

3. In a very short untitled poem, Rilke writes, "The voices warned me so I _____."

4. On what word does Mood focus in examining the ambiguity of "The Dragon-Princess"?

5. In one of the untitled love poems, Rilke writes, "What fields are fragrant as your ______?"

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