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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Ten.
(d) One.

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

4. Mood writes in the introduction to "The Dragon-Princess," "Unambiguous affirmation is" what?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Sentimentality.
(c) Naive.
(d) Truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what comes the line, "Murderers are / easily comprehended"?

2. From which work of Samuel Beckett does Mood quote from in the Epilogue?

3. On what word does Mood focus in examining the ambiguity of "The Dragon-Princess"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Mood's discussion of "The Difficulty of Dying," what symbol does he analyze first?

2. What must one "see" in order to write a single verse, according to Rilke?

3. What happens once man has acclimated himself to solitude, according to Rilke in "The Dragon-Princess"?

4. What does Mood say of Orpheus in his interpretation of "The Difficulty of Dying"?

5. Of what does Rilke say regarding insecurity in human relationships in "The Dragon-Princess"?

6. What metaphor does Rilke make in the end of "The Dragon-Princess" which echoes that of theories of psychology?

7. What does Mood discuss in the introduction to "The Dragon-Princess"?

8. What does Mood posit that the word "Desire" implies in "The Difficulty of Dying"?

9. What does Rilke remark of childhood memories in "Blood-Remembering"?

10. What is sacred to Mood regarding Rilke's writing? How does he express this in regarding his grave?

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