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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. In what poems does Rilke refer to the rose as a "body of nothing but radiance"?
(a) Sonnets to Orpheus.
(b) Duino Elegies.
(c) The Rose Poems.
(d) Seven Phallic Poems.

4. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," that Rilke had been fascinated by "that circling _____."
(a) Peace.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Love.
(d) Quiet.

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

6. Who does the commentator conclude that Rilke's epitaph addresses?
(a) Madonna.
(b) Orpheus.
(c) Pan.
(d) God.

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

8. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," He would think himself falling or hurled _________, or exploded into a thousand pieces."
(a) Onto the moon.
(b) Out into space.
(c) Across the universe.
(d) Into the ocean.

9. On what word does Mood focus in examining the ambiguity of "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) Until.
(b) Perhaps.
(c) Hope.
(d) Maybe.

10. From what work of Norman O. Brown's does Mood quote from in the Epilogue?
(a) Lord and Lady.
(b) Restless Eternity.
(c) End of Time.
(d) Love's Body.

11. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," that "fear of the inexplicable has not alone ______ the existence of the individual."
(a) Impoverished.
(b) Drowned.
(c) Killed.
(d) Blinded.

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

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

14. In what town is Rilke buried?
(a) Paris.
(b) Raron.
(c) London.
(d) Berlin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke write that verses are in "Blood-Remembering"?

2. The accompaniment to writing poetry as a subject to Rilke is what?

3. How much earlier than his death did Rilke pen his epitaph?

4. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that "verses are not, as people imagine," what?

5. What does Mood comment that "Blood-Remembering" answers the aesthetic fallacy of?

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