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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does Rilke write is, "to have courage for the most strange, most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter"?
(a) The only courage that is demanded of us.
(b) The singular obstacle in life.
(c) The single obstacle in love.
(d) The only feeling we must feel.

2. In a very short untitled poem, Rilke writes, "The voices warned me so I _____."
(a) Desisted.
(b) Ran.
(c) Ceased.
(d) Wept.

3. Mood writes that Rilke's novel is "dialectically" what?
(a) Biographical.
(b) Surreal.
(c) Depressing.
(d) Semi-autobiographical.

4. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."
(a) Ballerina.
(b) Butterfly.
(c) Sparrow.
(d) Nightingale.

5. Unlike the characters in Poe's stories, Rilke writes that we are not what?
(a) Idiots.
(b) Prisoners.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Rats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke write in his first letter, imploring the reader to try to love?

2. What does the poet say in his untitled poem to do with that which, "offers itself to us with starlight"?

3. Over what does the poet write, "we will together contend" in "Greek Love-Talk"?

4. In which poem does Rilke begin, "She who sleeps... To be so very awake, / near pure waking, that we into sleepers grow"?

5. In the poem, "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke writes, "Night. Oh you in depths ______."

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