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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. For the sake of what, much one see many cities, men and things, etc.?
(a) A single verse.
(b) A song.
(c) A novel.
(d) A poem.

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

5. 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) Matthew.
(c) Jesus Christ.
(d) Luke.

6. 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."
(a) Will.
(b) Strength.
(c) Patience.
(d) Fortitude.

7. How much earlier than his death did Rilke pen his epitaph?
(a) Three years.
(b) Fifteen months.
(c) Two months.
(d) One month.

8. What does Rilke write of "screams of women" in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) In regret.
(b) In labor.
(c) In sorrow.
(d) In heartbreak.

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

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

11. Who insisted on placing a large cross on a separate tombstone for Rilke?
(a) His grandson.
(b) His son.
(c) His wife.
(d) His daughter.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," that "fear of the inexplicable has not alone ______ the existence of the individual."

2. What of the sea does Rilke write of remembering in "Blood-Remembering"?

3. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," that if we think of the existence of the individual as a "larger or smaller" what?

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

5. From what work of Norman O. Brown's does Mood quote from in the Epilogue?

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