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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 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"?
(a) Jesus Christ.
(b) Matthew.
(c) Norman O. Brown.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

2. 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) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Jesus Christ.

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

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

5. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke writes "That mankind has in this sense been cowardly has done life endless _____."
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Death.
(c) Harm.
(d) Error.

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

7. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," "We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not _______."
(a) Deadly.
(b) Against us.
(c) Killing us.
(d) Dangerous.

8. Rilke says in "The Dragon-Princess," that "the experiences called 'visions,' the whole so-called 'spirit world'," etc. has been so crowded out of life that the "sense we could have grasped them with has" done what?
(a) Atrophied.
(b) Melted.
(c) Collapsed.
(d) Diminished.

9. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that quite at the end of life, one might be able to write how many verses that were good?
(a) Ten.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

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

11. The final lines of Rilke's epitaph read: "To be no one's sleep under so many ____."
(a) Loves.
(b) Lids.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Eyes.

12. 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.

13. 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) Strength.
(b) Patience.
(c) Will.
(d) Fortitude.

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

15. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that one must feel what?
(a) How the sheep sigh.
(b) How the birds fly.
(c) How the women weep.
(d) How the lights shine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary technique is used in the following? "lifted out of the riverbed of endless possibilities"?

2. Who insisted on placing a large cross on a separate tombstone for Rilke?

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

4. What does Rilke address in his epitaph?

5. What does Rilke suggest we do to the possible dangers at hand in life?

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