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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Mood writes in the introduction to "The Dragon-Princess," "Unambiguous affirmation is" what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Naive.
(c) Sentimentality.
(d) Romantic.

4. In what poem does Rilke write "Life and death: they are one, at core intertwined"?
(a) "The Poet Praises."
(b) "Woman's Lament II."
(c) "The Poems Praise."
(d) "The Poet Speaks of Praising."

5. What does Rilke write that one ought to wait and gather "a whole life long," in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Experience and memory.
(b) Age and memory.
(c) Memory and truth.
(d) Sense and sweetness.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the sake of what, much one see many cities, men and things, etc.?

2. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?

3. In the Prologue, who does the commentator say is the other of the two greatest writers of the twentieth century?

4. Rilke is regarded in his letters and his writing to be distinctly ahead of his time in what respect?

5. Who does Rilke say is incapable of such loving as he calls for?

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