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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. In what town is Rilke buried?
(a) London.
(b) Raron.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Paris.

2. What does Rilke write of "screams of women" in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) In regret.
(b) In sorrow.
(c) In heartbreak.
(d) In labor.

3. In "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke personifies "Night" as what?
(a) A lover.
(b) A bird.
(c) A river.
(d) A doom.

4. Rilke's final metaphor in "The Dragon-Princess" states that perhaps all the "dragons of our lives are" what?
(a) Princesses.
(b) Love.
(c) Aflame.
(d) Pebbles.

5. Rilke writes, "So for him who becomes solitary, all distances, all measures ____."
(a) Expand.
(b) Grow.
(c) Change.
(d) Evolve.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke says in "The Dragon-Princess," that "the experiences called 'visions,' the whole so-called 'spirit world'," etc. has been so crowded out of life that the "sense we could have grasped them with has" done what?

2. In a very short untitled poem, Rilke writes, "The voices warned me so I _____."

3. In "Gravity," Rilke writes, "Yet from the _____ falls, / as from a stored up cloud, / abundant rain of force."

4. In which poem does Rilke begin, "She who sleeps... To be so very awake, / near pure waking, that we into sleepers grow"?

5. Rilke writes in one untitled poem, "Like the _____ of quickly grown-up girls / one braids differently."

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