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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dragon-Princess.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rilke suggests to the reader in "The Dragon-Princess," "we must assume our existence as _____ as we in any way can."
(a) Brazenly.
(b) Broadly.
(c) Narrowly.
(d) Openly.

2. The first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?
(a) "The Seven Phallic Poems."
(b) "Poems to Orpheus."
(c) "Duino Elegies."
(d) "Rites to Passage."

3. Of what does Rilke write is, "to have courage for the most strange, most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter"?
(a) The single obstacle in love.
(b) The singular obstacle in life.
(c) The only courage that is demanded of us.
(d) The only feeling we must feel.

4. Whose influence helped to expand Rilke's vision, according to Mood?
(a) Donne.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Beckett.

5. When did Rilke undertake "the great giving"?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1900.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shall we "indeed turn" upon recognizing our solitude in "The Dragon-Princess"?

2. In the seventh of "The Seven Phallic Poems," what does the poet write that his "semen climbs gladly like"?

3. The translator claims that the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" deserve to take their place alongside whose great love poems?

4. One of the shortest of the love poems consists of the following two lines: "Also to affirm even ______ / like a thing."

5. In "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke personifies "Night" as what?

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