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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The accompaniment to writing poetry as a subject to Rilke is what?
(a) Love.
(b) Water.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) Living life.

2. Which word of Rilke's epitaph is set aside by commas?
(a) Rose.
(b) Sensual.
(c) Desire.
(d) Love.

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

4. From which work of Samuel Beckett does Mood quote from in the Epilogue?
(a) How It Is.
(b) Waiting for Godot.
(c) Happy Days.
(d) Endgame.

5. What must "one know" in order to write a single verse?
(a) The women.
(b) The animals.
(c) The rivers.
(d) The world.

6. What of the sea does Rilke write of remembering in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Sunsets.
(b) Lovemaking.
(c) Mornings.
(d) Evenings.

7. What does Rilke begin with in his discussion of "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Patience.
(c) Love.
(d) Solitude.

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

9. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," that "fear of the inexplicable has not alone ______ the existence of the individual."
(a) Impoverished.
(b) Killed.
(c) Blinded.
(d) Drowned.

10. Who does Mood quote in the Epilogue with the line, "... tormentor and tormented pedant and dunce wooer and wooed speechless and reafflicted with speech in the dark mud nothing to emend there"?
(a) Norman O. Brown.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Jesus Christ.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

11. What word did Rilke have to express "world-inner-space"?`
(a) Zukunft.
(b) Weltinnenraum.
(c) Frielich.
(d) Liden.

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

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

14. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke writes, "It is not _____ alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case..."
(a) Fear.
(b) Desperation.
(c) Inertia.
(d) Luxury.

15. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that quite at the end of life, one might be able to write how many verses that were good?
(a) One.
(b) Six.
(c) Ten.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rilke write of memories of parents in "Blood-Remembering"?

3. Who does the commentator conclude that Rilke's epitaph addresses?

4. Of the book, Mood writes in the Epilogue, "My work here, then, is only a ______, as I indicated in the Prologue."

5. Where does Rilke suggest a person might be removed from his room and placed, in discussing a metaphor for solitude?

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