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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whose point of view does the passage in "Blood-Remembering" come?
(a) Malte.
(b) Sarah.
(c) William.
(d) Johnathan.

2. What word is difficult in translation of Rilke's epitaph because of a pun on the word in the original German?
(a) Widerspruch.
(b) Zu.
(c) Lidern.
(d) Niemandes.

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

4. What does Mood write is the fallacy of expression theory in art?
(a) That art creates feeling.
(b) That art "expresses feelings."
(c) That art is art for no reason.
(d) That art is full of feeling.

5. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," that if we think of the existence of the individual as a "larger or smaller" what?
(a) River.
(b) Ocean.
(c) Room.
(d) Universe.

6. 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) Nietzsche.
(b) Jesus Christ.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Norman O. Brown.

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

8. Who said, "You have heard that it was said to the men of old, 'You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment.' But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment."
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Luke.
(c) Matthew.
(d) Jesus Christ.

9. In what form is "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) A novel.
(b) A letter.
(c) A short-story.
(d) A poem.

10. Mood writes in the Epilogue, "Perhaps no poet, not even ____, grew poetically as much as Rilke."
(a) Byron.
(b) Shelley.
(c) Yeats.
(d) Keaton.

11. Of what excerpt does Mood write is "the most affirmative passage of nonfiction prose I have ever come across"?
(a) "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge."
(b) "Letters to a Young Poet."
(c) "The Dragon-Princess."
(d) "Blood-Remembering."

12. What does Rilke refer to death as?
(a) The killer of children.
(b) The sleeping beast.
(c) The other side of life.
(d) The lover's quarrel.

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

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

15. Mood writes that Rilke's novel is "dialectically" what?
(a) Semi-autobiographical.
(b) Biographical.
(c) Surreal.
(d) Depressing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the principle subject of "Blood-Remembering"?

2. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering," One must be able to forget them when they are many and one must have the great _____ to wait until they come again."

3. What word did Rilke have to express "world-inner-space"?`

4. 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"?

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

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