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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What "gesture" must one know in order to write?
(a) Of the rivers running.
(b) With which the flowers open.
(c) Of the music.
(d) Of the seas.

4. 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 Lovers."
(b) "The Rose Window."
(c) "Dying Rose."
(d) "Greek Love-Talk."

5. 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) Inertia.
(c) Luxury.
(d) Desperation.

6. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," that Rilke says of lovers, "Being full of life, ... are full of ____."
(a) Breath.
(b) Peace.
(c) Love.
(d) Death.

7. How old was Rilke when he wrote "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) His twenties.
(b) His forties.
(c) His teens.
(d) His thirties.

8. Mood writes that the affirmative tone of "The Dragon-Princess" comes from its ambiguity and what?
(a) Power.
(b) Tentativeness.
(c) Faith.
(d) Naivete.

9. What does Rilke write "that rushed along on high and flew with all the stars"?
(a) Childbirth.
(b) Days of wandering.
(c) Kisses of beauty.
(d) Nights of travel.

10. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that "verses are not, as people imagine," what?
(a) Simply feelings.
(b) Memories.
(c) Truth.
(d) Words of love.

11. What does Mood compare "the wise old age" to in the introduction to "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Rose petals.
(b) Ripe fruit.
(c) Dew.
(d) Teardrops.

12. From what comes the line, "Murderers are / easily comprehended"?
(a) Duino Elegies.
(b) Letters to a Young Poet.
(c) Sonnets to Orpheus.
(d) The Seven Phallic Poems.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," He would think himself falling or hurled _________, or exploded into a thousand pieces."

3. 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."

4. From what novel is the excerpt "Blood-Remembering" taken?

5. What does Rilke begin with in his discussion of "The Dragon-Princess"?

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