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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his final lines of the Epilogue, Mood writes, "That much would be sufficient--for beginning is perhaps the most ______ thing of all."
(a) Rudimentary.
(b) Loving.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Significant.

2. Rilke's final metaphor in "The Dragon-Princess" states that perhaps all the "dragons of our lives are" what?
(a) Aflame.
(b) Princesses.
(c) Love.
(d) Pebbles.

3. Where does Rilke suggest a person might be removed from his room and placed, in discussing a metaphor for solitude?
(a) A great mountain.
(b) A spider web.
(c) An endless sea.
(d) A vast desert.

4. Who does Mood quote in the Epilogue with the line, "... tormentor and tormented pedant and dunce wooer and wooed speechless and reafflicted with speech in the dark mud nothing to emend there"?
(a) Norman O. Brown.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Jesus Christ.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

5. What does Rilke write of "screams of women" in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) In regret.
(b) In labor.
(c) In sorrow.
(d) In heartbreak.

6. What word is difficult in translation of Rilke's epitaph because of a pun on the word in the original German?
(a) Lidern.
(b) Widerspruch.
(c) Zu.
(d) Niemandes.

7. Rilke writes that most people only know a corner of their room, and thus have a certain what?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Love.
(c) Desperation.
(d) Security.

8. Mood writes that Rilke's novel is "dialectically" what?
(a) Surreal.
(b) Depressing.
(c) Semi-autobiographical.
(d) Biographical.

9. What does Rilke write "that rushed along on high and flew with all the stars"?
(a) Childbirth.
(b) Kisses of beauty.
(c) Nights of travel.
(d) Days of wandering.

10. Which word of Rilke's epitaph is set aside by commas?
(a) Rose.
(b) Love.
(c) Desire.
(d) Sensual.

11. Who does Mood quote in the Epilogue as having written, "A social order which draws a distinction between the wish and the deed, between the criminal and the righteous, is this a kingdom of darkness"?
(a) Matthew.
(b) Norman O. Brown.
(c) Jesus Christ.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

12. Who does the commentator conclude that Rilke's epitaph addresses?
(a) Madonna.
(b) Pan.
(c) Orpheus.
(d) God.

13. How much earlier than his death did Rilke pen his epitaph?
(a) One month.
(b) Two months.
(c) Fifteen months.
(d) Three years.

14. What does Rilke refer to death as?
(a) The sleeping beast.
(b) The lover's quarrel.
(c) The killer of children.
(d) The other side of life.

15. What word did Rilke have to express "world-inner-space"?`
(a) Weltinnenraum.
(b) Liden.
(c) Zukunft.
(d) Frielich.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what comes the line, "Killing is a form of our wandering mourning"?

2. What of the sea does Rilke write of remembering in "Blood-Remembering"?

3. From what work of Norman O. Brown's does Mood quote from in the Epilogue?

4. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," "We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not _______."

5. Rilke writes, as the first lines of "Blood-Remembering," "Ah! but verses amount to so little when one writes them _____."

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