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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 Rilke write about in conjunction with love and sex in Part VI of "The Seven Phallic Poems"?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Worry.
(d) Death.

2. Rilke writes, "So for him who becomes solitary, all distances, all measures ____."
(a) Grow.
(b) Change.
(c) Evolve.
(d) Expand.

3. Writing of one of his principle motifs, the poet writes, "Transform stamen on stamen, / fill your interior _____."
(a) Pitcher.
(b) Death.
(c) Rose.
(d) Heart.

4. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke suggests that we hold our life to the most difficult, and that which now "still seems to us the most alien will become" what?
(a) What we most trust.
(b) What blinds us.
(c) What kills us.
(d) What frees us.

5. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," that "fear of the inexplicable has not alone ______ the existence of the individual."
(a) Impoverished.
(b) Killed.
(c) Drowned.
(d) Blinded.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. Of what fruit does Rilke write of in "The Poet Praises"?

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

4. Of what excerpt does Mood write is "the most affirmative passage of nonfiction prose I have ever come across"?

5. Rilke suggests to the reader in "The Dragon-Princess," "we must assume our existence as _____ as we in any way can."

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