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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rilke wrote less about the craft of writing than what, according to Mood?
(a) The integrity.
(b) The inner life discipline.
(c) The heart.
(d) The structure.

2. 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 left behind.
(d) Whom one forgot.

3. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering," One must be able to forget them when they are many and one must have the great _____ to wait until they come again."
(a) Will.
(b) Strength.
(c) Fortitude.
(d) Patience.

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

5. From what collection is "The Poet Praises" taken?
(a) Duino Elegies.
(b) Cycle--Nights.
(c) Letters to a Young Poet.
(d) Sonnets to Orpheus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes that most people only know a corner of their room, and thus have a certain what?

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

3. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?

4. In one untitled poem of "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Play the ____, the single ones, quickly and you..."

5. In the second of "The Seven Phallic Poems," who does the poet claim is "drawing my seed up into an abrupt tree"?

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