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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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 Bowl of Roses."
(b) "The Lovers."
(c) "Greek Love-Talk."
(d) "The Rose Window."

8. 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 only feeling we must feel.
(b) The singular obstacle in life.
(c) The single obstacle in love.
(d) The only courage that is demanded of us.

9. Rilke writes that most people only know a corner of their room, and thus have a certain what?
(a) Desperation.
(b) Love.
(c) Blindness.
(d) Security.

10. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke suggests that we hold our life to the most difficult, and that which now "still seems to us the most alien will become" what?
(a) What frees us.
(b) What we most trust.
(c) What kills us.
(d) What blinds us.

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

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

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

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

15. In what year was Rilke's only full-length novel completed?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1910.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In "Blood-Remembering," Rilke writes "One must be able to think back to roads in ________."

4. In his final lines of the Epilogue, Mood writes, "That much would be sufficient--for beginning is perhaps the most ______ thing of all."

5. Rilke wrote less about the craft of writing than what, according to Mood?

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