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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 Rilke write that one ought to wait and gather "a whole life long," in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Sense and sweetness.
(b) Experience and memory.
(c) Memory and truth.
(d) Age and memory.

2. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?
(a) French.
(b) German.
(c) Bohemian.
(d) Austrian.

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

4. In the poem, "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke writes, "Night. Oh you in depths ______."
(a) Sighing.
(b) Dissolving.
(c) Weeping.
(d) Emerging.

5. What must "one know" in order to write a single verse?
(a) The women.
(b) The world.
(c) The rivers.
(d) The animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes in "The Seven Phallic Poems," "We close ______ by means of our gazes."

2. What is the name of the artists' colony in Russian where Rilke was further influenced in his writing?

3. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?

4. Rilke writes of love that "So whoever loves must try to act as if he had a _________."

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

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