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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," "We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not _______."
(a) Against us.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Killing us.

2. In Part IV of "The Seven Phallic Poems," the poet writes, "You don't know ______, with your diffidence."
(a) Love.
(b) Towers.
(c) Gods.
(d) Sex.

3. In introducing Rilke's love poetry, the commentator notes that the poet's sexual and sensual undertones are mostly overlooked because of the striking impact of what?
(a) His surreal approach.
(b) His uncommon rhythms.
(c) His flowery language.
(d) His spirituality.

4. Rilke writes in one letter, "Almost everything ______ is difficult, and everything is _______."
(a) Sexual.
(b) Love.
(c) Sensual.
(d) Serious.

5. Mood notes in his introduction to Rilke's poetry that the poet was "in no way an _______, nor in his life."
(a) Amateur.
(b) Artist.
(c) Actor.
(d) Aesthete.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke write one "must also have been beside" in "Blood-Remembering"?

2. What did the commentator originally call the selections of Rilke's letters which he copied and gave out?

3. Writing of one of his principle motifs, the poet writes, "Transform stamen on stamen, / fill your interior _____."

4. What does Rilke suggest we do to the possible dangers at hand in life?

5. What does Rilke comment in the excerpt from the Introduction that Eros "cannot be"?

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