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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rilke suggests to the reader in "The Dragon-Princess," "we must assume our existence as _____ as we in any way can."
(a) Openly.
(b) Brazenly.
(c) Broadly.
(d) Narrowly.

2. What has the fear of the inexplicable also impoverished, according to Rilke?
(a) Belief in self.
(b) Relationships between human beings.
(c) Trust in God.
(d) Relationships with God.

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

4. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," "The sleep is no one's, yet it belongs intimately to ____."
(a) The love.
(b) The rose.
(c) The dreamer.
(d) The sleeping.

5. Who does Mood quote in the Epilogue as having written, "A social order which draws a distinction between the wish and the deed, between the criminal and the righteous, is this a kingdom of darkness"?
(a) Norman O. Brown.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Jesus Christ.
(d) Matthew.

6. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke writes that the feeling one might have placed in total isolation, is "an abandonment to something inexpressible would almost ______ him."
(a) Annihilate.
(b) Dissipate.
(c) Overwhelm.
(d) Intensify.

7. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," "the contradiction is a ____ one, that is, it resides in the bloom itself."
(a) Distinct.
(b) Complex.
(c) Alluring.
(d) Pure.

8. Mood writes in the introduction to "The Dragon-Princess," "Unambiguous affirmation is" what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Sentimentality.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Naive.

9. In what year did Rilke write his own epitaph?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1921.

10. Rilke writes, as the first lines of "Blood-Remembering," "Ah! but verses amount to so little when one writes them _____."
(a) Through dreams.
(b) Blind.
(c) Old.
(d) Young.

11. From what book of the Bible does Mood quote in the Epilogue?
(a) Matthew.
(b) Luke.
(c) James.
(d) Ecclesiastes.

12. In "Blood-Remembering," Rilke writes "One must be able to think back to roads in ________."
(a) Days of yore.
(b) Childhood memory.
(c) Unknown regions.
(d) Remote lands.

13. What does Rilke write that verses are in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Love.
(b) Memories.
(c) Experiences.
(d) Feelings.

14. In his final lines of the Epilogue, Mood writes, "That much would be sufficient--for beginning is perhaps the most ______ thing of all."
(a) Rudimentary.
(b) Loving.
(c) Significant.
(d) Difficult.

15. From which of Rilke's poems does Mood quote "The Difficulty of Dying," "the glance while, as though caught by a whirlpool's / circling, swims a little while"?
(a) "The Rose Window."
(b) "The Lovers."
(c) "Dying Rose."
(d) "Greek Love-Talk."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke write of "screams of women" in "Blood-Remembering"?

2. From what comes the line, "Murderers are / easily comprehended"?

3. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that quite at the end of life, one might be able to write how many verses that were good?

4. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke writes, "It is not _____ alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case..."

5. What word is difficult in translation of Rilke's epitaph because of a pun on the word in the original German?

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