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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In one untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties," the poet writes, "Give me, oh earth, pure _____ / clay for the jug of tears."
(a) Resistent.
(b) Unmitigated.
(c) Unmingling.
(d) Reserved.

2. What is the name of the artists' colony in Russian where Rilke was further influenced in his writing?
(a) Worpswede.
(b) Round Table.
(c) Avondale.
(d) Schnizwald.

3. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?
(a) The gardener.
(b) The maiden.
(c) The rose-gatherer.
(d) The soldier.

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

5. In the Introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Mood writes that Rilke "began as a bit of a sticky late ______."
(a) Dadaist.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Surrealist.
(d) Absurdist.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."

2. In "The Poet Praises," Rilke writes, "Maidens, you warm ones, maidens, you mute and dumb, / dance the taste of the experienced _____!"

3. In the last of the untitled love poems, the poet writes, "Do you feel, distant dear miss, / since you are _______ me."

4. What would one feel, displaced from one's room and set in a place of great solitude?

5. When did Rilke undertake "the great giving"?

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