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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poem "Gong" makes use of what literary technique?
(a) Onomatapeia.
(b) Absurdism.
(c) Irony.
(d) Segmentation.

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

3. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," He would think himself falling or hurled _________, or exploded into a thousand pieces."
(a) Into the ocean.
(b) Across the universe.
(c) Out into space.
(d) Onto the moon.

4. Two-thirds of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" come from what year?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1915.

5. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke writes, "It is not _____ alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case..."
(a) Fear.
(b) Desperation.
(c) Inertia.
(d) Luxury.

Short Answer Questions

1. The commentator concludes the introduction to Rilke's love poetry in saying, "Rilke's poetry is somewhat precious and even _______."

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

3. In the introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Love," the commentator states that Rilke's imagery is all what?

4. Which poem begins, "See how in their veins all becomes spirit"?

5. 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?

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