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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mood comment that "Blood-Remembering" answers the aesthetic fallacy of?

2. What does Rilke write "that rushed along on high and flew with all the stars"?

3. What does Rilke suggest we do to the possible dangers at hand in life?

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

5. How old was Rilke when he wrote "The Dragon-Princess"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Blood-Remembering," what is the author's discussion of writing from "feelings"?

2. What comparison does Rilke use to explain human experience in "The Dragon-Princess"?

3. Describe in your own words what Rilke means in his metaphor of man's world in "The Dragon-Princess."

4. What does "Blood-Remembering" mean?

5. What does Mood posit that the word "Desire" implies in "The Difficulty of Dying"?

6. What does Mood discuss in the introduction to "The Dragon-Princess"?

7. What does Rilke remark in "Blood-Remembering" of the memories themselves?

8. What metaphor does Rilke use in describing solitude in "The Dragon-Princess"?

9. In "Blood-Remembering," what does Rilke write about the young as writers?

10. What word does Mood focus on regarding Rilke's writing of "The Dragon-Princess"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the poems "Woman's Lament I" and "Woman's Lament II." What structural differences are there in these poems? What similarities in regard to subject and theme?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following in terms of their influence on Rilke and his writing: Friedrich Nietzsche, Auguste Rodin, Sigmund Freud.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Rilke's relationship to Christianity. How does the poet view Christianity and its stance on sexuality? In what other ways does Rilke speak of religion?

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