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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 is a simplification of one's way of life?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Sex.
(d) Love.

2. In the last of the untitled love poems, the poet writes, "Do you feel, distant dear miss, / since you are _______ me."
(a) Reading.
(b) Kissing.
(c) Caressing.
(d) Loving.

3. The commentator remarks in the Introduction, "It should be emphasized that Rilke's language is thoroughly _______."
(a) Explicit.
(b) Dramatic.
(c) Narrow.
(d) Sensual.

4. Of what does Rilke write is, "to have courage for the most strange, most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter"?
(a) The singular obstacle in life.
(b) The only courage that is demanded of us.
(c) The single obstacle in love.
(d) The only feeling we must feel.

5. Of what does Rilke write "that so strangely began with such a number of profound and grave transformation" in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Of painful thoughts.
(b) Of childhood illnesses.
(c) Of lost loves.
(d) Of depressions.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Prologue, who does the commentator say is the other of the two greatest writers of the twentieth century?

2. Who does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?

3. In the introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Love," the commentator states that Rilke's imagery is all what?

4. What has the fear of the inexplicable also impoverished, according to Rilke?

5. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?

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