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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Rilke undertake "the great giving"?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1915.

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

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

4. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke suggests that we hold our life to the most difficult, and that which now "still seems to us the most alien will become" what?
(a) What we most trust.
(b) What frees us.
(c) What blinds us.
(d) What kills us.

5. Rilke's final metaphor in "The Dragon-Princess" states that perhaps all the "dragons of our lives are" what?
(a) Princesses.
(b) Pebbles.
(c) Aflame.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes, "So for him who becomes solitary, all distances, all measures ____."

2. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?

3. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."

4. Rilke writes of love that "So whoever loves must try to act as if he had a _________."

5. In Part IV of "The Seven Phallic Poems," the poet writes, "You don't know ______, with your diffidence."

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