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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This first poem in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" is titled what?
(a) "The Poet Speaks of Praising."
(b) "The Poems Praise."
(c) "The Cycle of Night."
(d) "The Poet Praises."

2. Rilke writes in one letter, "Almost everything ______ is difficult, and everything is _______."
(a) Serious.
(b) Sexual.
(c) Sensual.
(d) Love.

3. What does Mood write is the fallacy of expression theory in art?
(a) That art is full of feeling.
(b) That art is art for no reason.
(c) That art creates feeling.
(d) That art "expresses feelings."

4. What is the name of the artists' colony in Russian where Rilke was further influenced in his writing?
(a) Schnizwald.
(b) Worpswede.
(c) Round Table.
(d) Avondale.

5. 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) Feeling.
(b) Misery.
(c) Heartbreak.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sculptor had an influence on Rilke's writing?

3. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," "We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not _______."

4. Writing of one of his principle motifs, the poet writes, "Transform stamen on stamen, / fill your interior _____."

5. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?

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