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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what excerpt does Mood write is "the most affirmative passage of nonfiction prose I have ever come across"?
(a) "The Dragon-Princess."
(b) "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge."
(c) "Letters to a Young Poet."
(d) "Blood-Remembering."

2. In the seventh of "The Seven Phallic Poems," what does the poet write that his "semen climbs gladly like"?
(a) A god.
(b) A tower.
(c) A tree.
(d) A child.

3. What does Rilke begin with in his discussion of "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) Solitude.
(b) Love.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Patience.

4. Over what does the poet write, "we will together contend" in "Greek Love-Talk"?
(a) This war.
(b) Our love.
(c) The forest.
(d) Your breasts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes in "The Seven Phallic Poems," "We close ______ by means of our gazes."

2. The poem "Gong" makes use of what literary technique?

3. In the poem, "Mausoleum," what punctuation does Rilke use in a nontraditional way, at the beginning of two lines?

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

5. Of what does Rilke write is, "to have courage for the most strange, most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter"?

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