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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 does the commentator say was Rilke's mode of exploration during "the long periods between his well-known great creative bursts of energy"?
(a) Painting.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Letter-writing.
(d) Sculpting.

2. In the poem, "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke writes, "Night. Oh you in depths ______."
(a) Dissolving.
(b) Weeping.
(c) Emerging.
(d) Sighing.

3. 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) Unmitigated.
(b) Reserved.
(c) Resistent.
(d) Unmingling.

4. In the second of "The Seven Phallic Poems," who does the poet claim is "drawing my seed up into an abrupt tree"?
(a) Love.
(b) A maiden.
(c) A garden.
(d) Summer.

5. What does Rilke suggest we do to the possible dangers at hand in life?
(a) Conquer them.
(b) Try to love them.
(c) Arrest them.
(d) Run from them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?

2. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke writes that the feeling one might have placed in total isolation, is "an abandonment to something inexpressible would almost ______ him."

3. What does Rilke write that one ought to wait and gather "a whole life long," in "Blood-Remembering"?

4. Rilke writes that most people only know a corner of their room, and thus have a certain what?

5. Speaking of solitude, Rilke writes, "We are solitary. We may _____ ourselves and act as though this were not so."

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