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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's letters are examples of what?
(a) Prose.
(b) Verisimilitude.
(c) Verse.
(d) Irony.

2. In what amount of time did Rilke write over 1,600 lines of poetry plus a major essay during "the great giving"?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) Three months.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Six months.

3. In which poem does Rilke begin, "She who sleeps... To be so very awake, / near pure waking, that we into sleepers grow"?
(a) "The Lovers."
(b) "Greek Love-Talk."
(c) "Music."
(d) "Magic."

4. In Part III of "The Seven Phallic Poems," Rilke writes, "Granted by you, the image of the ____ stands/at the gentle crossroads under my clothes."
(a) Madonna.
(b) God.
(c) Flower.
(d) Tower.

5. Over what does the poet write, "we will together contend" in "Greek Love-Talk"?
(a) Your breasts.
(b) The forest.
(c) Our love.
(d) This war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mood comment that "Blood-Remembering" answers the aesthetic fallacy of?

2. In "Gravity," Rilke writes, "Yet from the _____ falls, / as from a stored up cloud, / abundant rain of force."

3. In the excerpt of Rilke's letter in the Introduction, what essay does he refer to reading?

4. From what novel is the excerpt "Blood-Remembering" taken?

5. In "Blood-Remembering," from what comes poetry?

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