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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what collection is "The Poet Praises" taken?
(a) Cycle--Nights.
(b) Duino Elegies.
(c) Sonnets to Orpheus.
(d) Letters to a Young Poet.

2. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."
(a) Woman.
(b) Kiss.
(c) Phalli.
(d) Silence.

3. Rilke suggests to the reader in "The Dragon-Princess," "we must assume our existence as _____ as we in any way can."
(a) Openly.
(b) Broadly.
(c) Narrowly.
(d) Brazenly.

4. Rilke is regarded in his letters and his writing to be distinctly ahead of his time in what respect?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Writing.
(c) Politics.
(d) Religion.

5. In "Blood-Remembering," Rilke writes "One must be able to think back to roads in ________."
(a) Childhood memory.
(b) Remote lands.
(c) Unknown regions.
(d) Days of yore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the translator comment in the Prologue that his translations of Rilke are?

2. Rilke wrote less about the craft of writing than what, according to Mood?

3. In what amount of time did Rilke write over 1,600 lines of poetry plus a major essay during "the great giving"?

4. The commentator notes that all of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" were written when he was how old?

5. Writing of one of his principle motifs, the poet writes, "Transform stamen on stamen, / fill your interior _____."

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