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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shall we "indeed turn" upon recognizing our solitude in "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) Dizzy.
(b) Brazen.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Unabashed.

2. From what comes the line, "Killing is a form of our wandering mourning"?
(a) Letters to a Young Poet.
(b) The Seven Phallic Poems.
(c) Duino Elegies.
(d) Sonnets to Orpheus.

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

4. Unlike the characters in Poe's stories, Rilke writes that we are not what?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Idiots.
(c) Rats.
(d) Prisoners.

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

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

7. What must "one know" in order to write a single verse?
(a) The women.
(b) The rivers.
(c) The world.
(d) The animals.

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

9. Mood writes in the Epilogue, "Perhaps no poet, not even ____, grew poetically as much as Rilke."
(a) Byron.
(b) Yeats.
(c) Shelley.
(d) Keaton.

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

11. What does Rilke suggest we do to the possible dangers at hand in life?
(a) Run from them.
(b) Conquer them.
(c) Try to love them.
(d) Arrest them.

12. 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) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Matthew.
(d) Norman O. Brown.

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

14. Which word of Rilke's epitaph is set aside by commas?
(a) Love.
(b) Sensual.
(c) Rose.
(d) Desire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," "We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not _______."

2. Where does Rilke suggest a person might be removed from his room and placed, in discussing a metaphor for solitude?

3. What "gesture" must one know in order to write?

4. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that one must feel what?

5. What does Rilke write "that rushed along on high and flew with all the stars"?

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