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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the artists' colony in Russian where Rilke was further influenced in his writing?
(a) Schnizwald.
(b) Round Table.
(c) Worpswede.
(d) Avondale.

2. In one untitled poem of "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Play the ____, the single ones, quickly and you..."
(a) Harps.
(b) Kisses.
(c) Loves.
(d) Deaths.

3. What does the poet say in his untitled poem to do with that which, "offers itself to us with starlight"?
(a) Let it be free.
(b) Hide from it.
(c) Take it seriously.
(d) Cry with it.

4. In what amount of time did Rilke write over 1,600 lines of poetry plus a major essay during "the great giving"?
(a) Three months.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) Six months.

5. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."
(a) Nature.
(b) Children.
(c) Love.
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke writes, "It is not _____ alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case..."

2. What is the "romantic notion held by many young people," that Mood speaks of in introducing "Blood-Remembering"?

3. Rilke wrote less about the craft of writing than what, according to Mood?

4. In "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes in one poem from 1924, "We are not to know why / this and that _____ us."

5. Mood writes that Rilke's novel is "dialectically" what?

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