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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary technique is used in the following? "lifted out of the riverbed of endless possibilities"?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Irony.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

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

3. Whose influence helped to expand Rilke's vision, according to Mood?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Donne.
(d) Nietzsche.

4. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," that if we think of the existence of the individual as a "larger or smaller" what?
(a) Ocean.
(b) Universe.
(c) Room.
(d) River.

5. What, with absinthe, "trickle through silent sieves of kisses of bitter essence"?
(a) Lust.
(b) Wormwood.
(c) Fairies.
(d) Arsenic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In which poem does Rilke begin, "She who sleeps... To be so very awake, / near pure waking, that we into sleepers grow"?

3. In one untitled love poem, Rilke writes, "Drinking would seem too much, too ____, to me"?

4. In one of the untitled love poems, Rilke writes, "What fields are fragrant as your ______?"

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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