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

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

3. From which work of Samuel Beckett does Mood quote from in the Epilogue?
(a) Waiting for Godot.
(b) How It Is.
(c) Happy Days.
(d) Endgame.

4. What does Rilke write of memories of parents in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Whom one forgot.
(b) Whom one still longs for.
(c) Whom one left behind.
(d) Whom one had to hurt.

5. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," "The sleep is no one's, yet it belongs intimately to ____."
(a) The sleeping.
(b) The dreamer.
(c) The love.
(d) The rose.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Rilke writes, as the first lines of "Blood-Remembering," "Ah! but verses amount to so little when one writes them _____."

3. What has the fear of the inexplicable also impoverished, according to Rilke?

4. Mood writes in the Epilogue, "Perhaps no poet, not even ____, grew poetically as much as Rilke."

5. In what poems does Rilke refer to the rose as a "body of nothing but radiance"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What metaphor does Rilke use in describing solitude in "The Dragon-Princess"?

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

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

4. What does Mood examine about Rilke's vision of the empty space within the rose?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Rilke speak of initially regarding solitude in "The Dragon-Princess"?

10. What does "under so many lids" reference in "The Difficulty of Dying"?

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