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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) Reserved.
(c) Unmitigated.
(d) Unmingling.

2. Rilke writes in one letter, "At bottom ______ can help anyone else in life."
(a) No one.
(b) Women.
(c) Men.
(d) Everyone.

3. The commentator remarks in the Introduction, "It should be emphasized that Rilke's language is thoroughly _______."
(a) Dramatic.
(b) Narrow.
(c) Sensual.
(d) Explicit.

4. Mood notes in his introduction to Rilke's poetry that the poet was "in no way an _______, nor in his life."
(a) Aesthete.
(b) Actor.
(c) Amateur.
(d) Artist.

5. 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 vast desert.
(c) A great mountain.
(d) An endless sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke's final metaphor in "The Dragon-Princess" states that perhaps all the "dragons of our lives are" what?

2. Over what does the poet write, "we will together contend" in "Greek Love-Talk"?

3. In the excerpt of Rilke's letter in the Introduction, what essay does he refer to reading?

4. What does the commentator say was Rilke's mode of exploration during "the long periods between his well-known great creative bursts of energy"?

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

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