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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 of memories of parents in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Whom one had to hurt.
(b) Whom one still longs for.
(c) Whom one forgot.
(d) Whom one left behind.

2. What has the fear of the inexplicable also impoverished, according to Rilke?
(a) Relationships between human beings.
(b) Belief in self.
(c) Trust in God.
(d) Relationships with God.

3. In the seventh of "The Seven Phallic Poems," what does the poet write that his "semen climbs gladly like"?
(a) A god.
(b) A tree.
(c) A tower.
(d) A child.

4. In the Prologue, who does the commentator say is the other of the two greatest writers of the twentieth century?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

5. What did the commentator originally call the selections of Rilke's letters which he copied and gave out?
(a) "Notes on Love."
(b) "Rilke on Love."
(c) "Letters of Love."
(d) "The Love Letters."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rilke write in Part V of "The Seven Phallic Poems" has "weakened you and me"?

3. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," He would think himself falling or hurled _________, or exploded into a thousand pieces."

4. What does Rilke write that he holds to be "the highest task of a bond between two people"?

5. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that one must feel what?

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