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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. On what word does Mood focus in examining the ambiguity of "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Until.
(c) Hope.
(d) Perhaps.

2. How old was Rilke when he wrote "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) His forties.
(b) His teens.
(c) His twenties.
(d) His thirties.

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

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

5. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," He would think himself falling or hurled _________, or exploded into a thousand pieces."
(a) Into the ocean.
(b) Onto the moon.
(c) Across the universe.
(d) Out into space.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Rilke write his own epitaph?

2. What "gesture" must one know in order to write?

3. From whose point of view does the passage in "Blood-Remembering" come?

4. What does Rilke write of "screams of women" in "Blood-Remembering"?

5. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that quite at the end of life, one might be able to write how many verses that were good?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has Rilke accomplished in his epitaph, according to Mood?

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

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

4. What word does Mood focus on regarding Rilke's writing of "The Dragon-Princess"?

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

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

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

8. What is the poem discussed in "The Difficulty of Dying"?

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

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

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