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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. On what word does Mood focus in examining the ambiguity of "The Dragon-Princess"?
2. What would one feel, displaced from one's room and set in a place of great solitude?
3. From what comes the line, "Murderers are / easily comprehended"?
4. Who said, "You have heard that it was said to the men of old, 'You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment.' But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment."
5. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," that Rilke says of lovers, "Being full of life, ... are full of ____."
Short Essay Questions
1. What does "under so many lids" reference in "The Difficulty of Dying"?
2. Of what does Rilke say regarding insecurity in human relationships in "The Dragon-Princess"?
3. What has Rilke accomplished in his epitaph, according to Mood?
4. What does Rilke remark of childhood memories in "Blood-Remembering"?
5. What does Rilke say of "forgetting" in "Blood-Remembering"?
6. What word does Mood focus on regarding Rilke's writing of "The Dragon-Princess"?
7. What does Rilke remark in "Blood-Remembering" of the memories themselves?
8. Describe in your own words what Rilke means in his metaphor of man's world in "The Dragon-Princess."
9. From what text is "Blood-Remembering" taken? What character is speaking?
10. What does Mood posit that the word "Desire" implies in "The Difficulty of Dying"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Mood's analysis of Rilke's epitaph. How does Mood dissect the poem into pieces, looking at each segment as it interlocks with the next? How does he view the translating of the words?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss "The Seven Phallic Poems" in terms of subject, theme, symbolism, imagery, and structure.
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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