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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 what amount of time did Rilke write over 1,600 lines of poetry plus a major essay during "the great giving"?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) Three months.
(c) Six months.
(d) Three weeks.

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. Which poem begins with the line, "And the last perhaps will not return"?
(a) "Woman's Lament I."
(b) "Woman's Lament II."
(c) "Greek Love-Talk."
(d) "The Lovers."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke suggests to the reader in "The Dragon-Princess," "we must assume our existence as _____ as we in any way can."

2. What is the title of the poem which begins, "Center, how you draw yourself out"?

3. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."

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

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

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