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

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

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

4. From what book of the Bible does Mood quote in the Epilogue?
(a) Matthew.
(b) Ecclesiastes.
(c) Luke.
(d) James.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Speaking of solitude, Rilke writes, "We are solitary. We may _____ ourselves and act as though this were not so."

2. What is the "romantic notion held by many young people," that Mood speaks of in introducing "Blood-Remembering"?

3. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke writes that the feeling one might have placed in total isolation, is "an abandonment to something inexpressible would almost ______ him."

4. What does Rilke refer to death as?

5. What does Mood write is the fallacy of expression theory in art?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rilke say of "forgetting" in "Blood-Remembering"?

2. What does Rilke remark in "Blood-Remembering" of the memories themselves?

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

4. Describe in your own words what Rilke means in his metaphor of man's world in "The Dragon-Princess."

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

6. What does Rilke remark of the memories of "love" in "Blood-Remembering"?

7. In "Blood-Remembering," what does Rilke write about the young as writers?

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

9. What does Mood believe Rilke associated between life and death?

10. What does Mood preface "Blood-Remembering" with, in discussing the poet?

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