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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 author does Rilke refer to in "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) Poe.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Shelley.
(d) Byron.

2. What does Mood comment that "Blood-Remembering" answers the aesthetic fallacy of?
(a) The impatience of youth.
(b) The expression theory of art.
(c) The yearning for more.
(d) The final judgment.

3. How does the poet refer to childhood days to recall in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Explained.
(b) Still unexplained.
(c) Painful.
(d) Joyous.

4. What is the "romantic notion held by many young people," that Mood speaks of in introducing "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) That one needs only to experience things in order to know them.
(b) That the answers lie in the ink.
(c) The the answers exist.
(d) That life is meaningful without love.

5. In what year was Rilke born?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1800.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which poem begins, "See how in their veins all becomes spirit"?

2. In what year was Rilke's only full-length novel completed?

3. In "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes in one poem from 1924, "We are not to know why / this and that _____ us."

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

5. What of the sea does Rilke write of remembering in "Blood-Remembering"?

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