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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 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) "Music."
(c) "Greek Love-Talk."
(d) "Magic."

2. In an untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Great star of love's priestesses, which _____ kindles from its own right."
(a) Heartbreak.
(b) Misery.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Feeling.

3. One poem, using nature imagery, reads, "Cheerful gift from the chillier / mountains / attempts to leap into ____."
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) June.
(d) August.

4. In the Prologue, who does the commentator say is the other of the two greatest writers of the twentieth century?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. One of the shortest of the love poems consists of the following two lines: "Also to affirm even ______ / like a thing."

3. What literary technique is used in the following? "lifted out of the riverbed of endless possibilities"?

4. In one untitled poem of "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Play the ____, the single ones, quickly and you..."

5. In "Blood-Remembering," Rilke writes "One must be able to think back to roads in ________."

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