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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Ballerina.
(c) Nightingale.
(d) Sparrow.

2. What is the title of the poem which begins, "From indescribable transformation flash / such creations--: Feel! and trust!"?
(a) "Magic."
(b) "Gong."
(c) "Music."
(d) "Greek Love-Talk."

3. The first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?
(a) "Poems to Orpheus."
(b) "Rites to Passage."
(c) "The Seven Phallic Poems."
(d) "Duino Elegies."

4. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?
(a) The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
(b) Lessons of a Forgotten Soul.
(c) The Grapes of Wrath.
(d) Letters to a Young Poet.

5. Whose influence helped to expand Rilke's vision, according to Mood?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Donne.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Goethe.

Short Answer Questions

1. This first poem in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" is titled what?

2. What did the commentator originally call the selections of Rilke's letters which he copied and gave out?

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

4. Rilke writes that most people only know a corner of their room, and thus have a certain what?

5. Two-thirds of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" come from what year?

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