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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The commentator regards that Rilke's "justly famed deep spirituality" is rooted essentially in what?
(a) Nature.
(b) God.
(c) Sex.
(d) Heaven.

2. Of what excerpt does Mood write is "the most affirmative passage of nonfiction prose I have ever come across"?
(a) "The Dragon-Princess."
(b) "Letters to a Young Poet."
(c) "Blood-Remembering."
(d) "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge."

3. What does Rilke suggest we do to the possible dangers at hand in life?
(a) Run from them.
(b) Conquer them.
(c) Arrest them.
(d) Try to love them.

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

5. Rilke writes that most people only know a corner of their room, and thus have a certain what?
(a) Love.
(b) Blindness.
(c) Desperation.
(d) Security.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mood writes in the introduction to "The Dragon-Princess," "Unambiguous affirmation is" what?

2. What does Rilke begin with in his discussion of "The Dragon-Princess"?

3. Rilke's letters are examples of what?

4. In one of the untitled love poems, Rilke writes, "What fields are fragrant as your ______?"

5. In what form is "The Dragon-Princess"?

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