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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is one of the earliest figures of feminism who was friends with Rilke?
(a) Ellen Kay.
(b) Sarah Albright.
(c) Ellen Page.
(d) Victoria Ellison.

2. Rilke wrote less about the craft of writing than what, according to Mood?
(a) The structure.
(b) The integrity.
(c) The heart.
(d) The inner life discipline.

3. What does Rilke write that he holds to be "the highest task of a bond between two people"?
(a) That they should each stand guard over the solitude of the other.
(b) That they must live closely.
(c) That they should hold no limits to their connection.
(d) That they should stand alone.

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

5. What shall we "indeed turn" upon recognizing our solitude in "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Unabashed.
(c) Brazen.
(d) Dizzy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke write that verses are in "Blood-Remembering"?

2. In what year did Rilke write "The Seven Phallic Poems"?

3. In "The Poet Praises," Rilke writes, "Maidens, you warm ones, maidens, you mute and dumb, / dance the taste of the experienced _____!"

4. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," that "fear of the inexplicable has not alone ______ the existence of the individual."

5. Unlike the characters in Poe's stories, Rilke writes that we are not what?

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