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

2. Rilke writes in one untitled poem, "Like the _____ of quickly grown-up girls / one braids differently."
(a) Ringlets.
(b) Hairpins.
(c) Pigtails.
(d) Lipstick.

3. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."
(a) Silence.
(b) Kiss.
(c) Phalli.
(d) Woman.

4. What does Rilke write one "must also have been beside" in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) The young.
(b) The newborn.
(c) The dying.
(d) The loving.

5. Where does Rilke suggest a person might be removed from his room and placed, in discussing a metaphor for solitude?
(a) A spider web.
(b) An endless sea.
(c) A great mountain.
(d) A vast desert.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the poem which begins, "Center, how you draw yourself out"?

2. Mood writes that Rilke's novel is "dialectically" what?

3. The first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?

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

5. The commentator notes that all of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" were written when he was how old?

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