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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In one untitled poem of "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Play the ____, the single ones, quickly and you..."
(a) Harps.
(b) Kisses.
(c) Loves.
(d) Deaths.

2. Rilke wrote less about the craft of writing than what, according to Mood?
(a) The heart.
(b) The structure.
(c) The inner life discipline.
(d) The integrity.

3. In the Introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Mood writes that Rilke "began as a bit of a sticky late ______."
(a) Surrealist.
(b) Absurdist.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Dadaist.

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

5. What does Rilke begin with in his discussion of "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Solitude.
(c) Patience.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mood compare "the wise old age" to in the introduction to "Blood-Remembering"?

2. What does Rilke suggest that the young are apt to do in love?

3. Rilke's letters are examples of what?

4. Rilke is regarded in his letters and his writing to be distinctly ahead of his time in what respect?

5. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."

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