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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's final metaphor in "The Dragon-Princess" states that perhaps all the "dragons of our lives are" what?
(a) Princesses.
(b) Aflame.
(c) Pebbles.
(d) Love.

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

3. In one untitled poem of "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Play the ____, the single ones, quickly and you..."
(a) Harps.
(b) Deaths.
(c) Kisses.
(d) Loves.

4. What does Rilke write in Part V of "The Seven Phallic Poems" has "weakened you and me"?
(a) Too ample space.
(b) Too strong a love.
(c) Too strong an adversary.
(d) Too great a distance.

5. In the second of "The Seven Phallic Poems," who does the poet claim is "drawing my seed up into an abrupt tree"?
(a) A maiden.
(b) Summer.
(c) A garden.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," He would think himself falling or hurled _________, or exploded into a thousand pieces."

2. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," that if we think of the existence of the individual as a "larger or smaller" what?

3. Speaking of solitude, Rilke writes, "We are solitary. We may _____ ourselves and act as though this were not so."

4. In a very short untitled poem, Rilke writes, "The voices warned me so I _____."

5. Whose influence helped to expand Rilke's vision, according to Mood?

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