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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary technique is used in the following? "lifted out of the riverbed of endless possibilities"?
(a) Irony.
(b) Simile.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Metaphor.

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

3. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," that if we think of the existence of the individual as a "larger or smaller" what?
(a) River.
(b) Ocean.
(c) Universe.
(d) Room.

4. How does the poet refer to childhood days to recall in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Still unexplained.
(b) Explained.
(c) Painful.
(d) Joyous.

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

6. Speaking of solitude, Rilke writes, "We are solitary. We may _____ ourselves and act as though this were not so."
(a) Lie to.
(b) Deny.
(c) Trick.
(d) Delude.

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

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

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

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

11. What does Mood compare "the wise old age" to in the introduction to "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Ripe fruit.
(b) Rose petals.
(c) Dew.
(d) Teardrops.

12. Mood writes that Rilke's novel is "dialectically" what?
(a) Biographical.
(b) Semi-autobiographical.
(c) Depressing.
(d) Surreal.

13. In his final lines of the Epilogue, Mood writes, "That much would be sufficient--for beginning is perhaps the most ______ thing of all."
(a) Loving.
(b) Rudimentary.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Significant.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes, "So for him who becomes solitary, all distances, all measures ____."

2. Of what does Rilke write "that so strangely began with such a number of profound and grave transformation" in "Blood-Remembering"?

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

4. Mood writes in the introduction to "The Dragon-Princess," "Unambiguous affirmation is" what?

5. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," "The sleep is no one's, yet it belongs intimately to ____."

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