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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the poet say in his untitled poem to do with that which, "offers itself to us with starlight"?
(a) Cry with it.
(b) Let it be free.
(c) Take it seriously.
(d) Hide from it.

2. What is the title of the poem which begins, "Center, how you draw yourself out"?
(a) "Force of Gravity."
(b) "From the Cycle: Nights."
(c) "Magic."
(d) "Music."

3. Which poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties" speaks of a king?
(a) "Greek Love-Talk."
(b) "Magic."
(c) "Mausoleum."
(d) "Gong."

4. What does Mood comment that "Blood-Remembering" answers the aesthetic fallacy of?
(a) The impatience of youth.
(b) The yearning for more.
(c) The expression theory of art.
(d) The final judgment.

5. What is the principle subject of "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Love.
(b) Sculpting.
(c) Writing.
(d) Painting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Speaking of solitude, Rilke writes, "We are solitary. We may _____ ourselves and act as though this were not so."

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

3. Whose influence helped to expand Rilke's vision, according to Mood?

4. In what form is "The Dragon-Princess"?

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

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