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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 Part III of "The Seven Phallic Poems," Rilke writes, "Granted by you, the image of the ____ stands/at the gentle crossroads under my clothes."
(a) Tower.
(b) Madonna.
(c) Flower.
(d) God.

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

3. 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 spider web.
(c) A vast desert.
(d) An endless sea.

4. Rilke writes in an untitled poem, "Who keeps innerly _____, touches the roots of speech."
(a) Remembered.
(b) Stoic.
(c) Loved.
(d) Silent.

5. Mood writes that the affirmative tone of "The Dragon-Princess" comes from its ambiguity and what?
(a) Tentativeness.
(b) Power.
(c) Naivete.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. The accompaniment to writing poetry as a subject to Rilke is what?

2. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering," One must be able to forget them when they are many and one must have the great _____ to wait until they come again."

3. Of what does Rilke write is, "to have courage for the most strange, most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter"?

4. What sculptor had an influence on Rilke's writing?

5. Who does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?

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