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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. What does Rilke suggest that the young are apt to do in love?
(a) Give oneself away.
(b) Marry for money.
(c) Not listen to each other.
(d) Stand solitary.

2. The first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?
(a) "Rites to Passage."
(b) "Poems to Orpheus."
(c) "Duino Elegies."
(d) "The Seven Phallic Poems."

3. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that one must feel what?
(a) How the sheep sigh.
(b) How the birds fly.
(c) How the women weep.
(d) How the lights shine.

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

5. Rilke writes that most people only know a corner of their room, and thus have a certain what?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Love.
(c) Security.
(d) Desperation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke write one "must also have been beside" in "Blood-Remembering"?

2. In the introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Love," the commentator states that Rilke's imagery is all what?

3. In "Blood-Remembering," Rilke writes "One must be able to think back to roads in ________."

4. In what year was Rilke's only full-length novel completed?

5. Mood writes in the Epilogue that one translator said of Rilke's controversial line, "even ____would not bother to satirize."

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