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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 "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke writes "That mankind has in this sense been cowardly has done life endless _____."
(a) Error.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Harm.
(d) Death.

2. How much earlier than his death did Rilke pen his epitaph?
(a) Fifteen months.
(b) One month.
(c) Two months.
(d) Three years.

3. What has the fear of the inexplicable also impoverished, according to Rilke?
(a) Relationships between human beings.
(b) Relationships with God.
(c) Belief in self.
(d) Trust in God.

4. Of the book, Mood writes in the Epilogue, "My work here, then, is only a ______, as I indicated in the Prologue."
(a) Beginning.
(b) Overview.
(c) Wrestling.
(d) Ending.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Rilke's only full-length novel completed?

2. What does Rilke address in his epitaph?

3. The accompaniment to writing poetry as a subject to Rilke is what?

4. In "Blood-Remembering," from what comes poetry?

5. In "Blood-Remembering," Rilke writes "One must be able to think back to roads in ________."

Short Essay Questions

1. From what text is "Blood-Remembering" taken? What character is speaking?

2. What three authors does the commentator compare to Rilke's quote, "Murderers are easily comprehended"?

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

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

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

6. What does "Blood-Remembering" mean?

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

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

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

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

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