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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Rilke suggest a person might be removed from his room and placed, in discussing a metaphor for solitude?
(a) A great mountain.
(b) A vast desert.
(c) A spider web.
(d) An endless sea.

2. What literary term applies to the following: "exhaust yourself like a spring"?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Irony.
(d) Alliteration.

3. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke writes "That mankind has in this sense been cowardly has done life endless _____."
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Error.
(c) Harm.
(d) Death.

4. Rilke writes in one untitled poem, "Like the _____ of quickly grown-up girls / one braids differently."
(a) Lipstick.
(b) Ringlets.
(c) Hairpins.
(d) Pigtails.

5. What would one feel, displaced from one's room and set in a place of great solitude?
(a) Abiding love.
(b) Great bravery.
(c) Unparalleled insecurity.
(d) Great fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?

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

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

4. In the second of "The Seven Phallic Poems," who does the poet claim is "drawing my seed up into an abrupt tree"?

5. What does the poet say in his untitled poem to do with that which, "offers itself to us with starlight"?

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