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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 does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Fitzgerald.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Norman Mailer.

2. The commentator regards that Rilke's "justly famed deep spirituality" is rooted essentially in what?
(a) Nature.
(b) Sex.
(c) God.
(d) Heaven.

3. What does Rilke write of memories of parents in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Whom one had to hurt.
(b) Whom one forgot.
(c) Whom one still longs for.
(d) Whom one left behind.

4. Rilke writes in one untitled poem, "Like the _____ of quickly grown-up girls / one braids differently."
(a) Hairpins.
(b) Lipstick.
(c) Pigtails.
(d) Ringlets.

5. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."
(a) Phalli.
(b) Silence.
(c) Kiss.
(d) Woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rilke suggest a person might be removed from his room and placed, in discussing a metaphor for solitude?

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

3. Which poem begins with the line, "And the last perhaps will not return"?

4. How does the poet refer to childhood days to recall in "Blood-Remembering"?

5. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that "verses are not, as people imagine," what?

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