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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which poem of Rilke's does Mood refer to in the lines, "And this: that one opens like a lid, / and lying under there nothing but eyelids"?
(a) "The Lovers."
(b) "Greek Love-Talk."
(c) "The Bowl of Roses."
(d) "The Rose Window."

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

4. What does Rilke write of memories of parents in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Whom one still longs for.
(b) Whom one had to hurt.
(c) Whom one left behind.
(d) Whom one forgot.

5. Of what does Rilke write is, "to have courage for the most strange, most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter"?
(a) The single obstacle in love.
(b) The only feeling we must feel.
(c) The only courage that is demanded of us.
(d) The singular obstacle in life.

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

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

8. What author does Rilke refer to in "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) Byron.
(b) Shelley.
(c) Poe.
(d) Nietzsche.

9. Of what does Rilke write "that so strangely began with such a number of profound and grave transformation" in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Of depressions.
(b) Of childhood illnesses.
(c) Of painful thoughts.
(d) Of lost loves.

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

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

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

13. 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."

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

15. What is the "romantic notion held by many young people," that Mood speaks of in introducing "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) The the answers exist.
(b) That life is meaningful without love.
(c) That the answers lie in the ink.
(d) That one needs only to experience things in order to know them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word of Rilke's epitaph is set aside by commas?

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

3. In what form is "The Dragon-Princess"?

4. What does Mood write is the fallacy of expression theory in art?

5. In what town is Rilke buried?

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