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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Difficulty of Dying: Rilke's Self-Composed Epitaph.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mood writes in the Epilogue that one translator said of Rilke's controversial line, "even ____would not bother to satirize."
(a) Brockett.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Rodin.

2. In the poem, "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke writes, "Night. Oh you in depths ______."
(a) Dissolving.
(b) Emerging.
(c) Weeping.
(d) Sighing.

3. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," that Rilke had been fascinated by "that circling _____."
(a) Love.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Peace.

4. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."
(a) Ballerina.
(b) Sparrow.
(c) Butterfly.
(d) Nightingale.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does Rilke refer to in "The Dragon-Princess"?

2. What does Mood compare "the wise old age" to in the introduction to "Blood-Remembering"?

3. This first poem in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" is titled what?

4. What does the poet say in his untitled poem to do with that which, "offers itself to us with starlight"?

5. From which work of Samuel Beckett does Mood quote from in the Epilogue?

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