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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. What does Mood comment that "Blood-Remembering" answers the aesthetic fallacy of?
(a) The final judgment.
(b) The yearning for more.
(c) The impatience of youth.
(d) The expression theory of art.

2. What does Rilke write one "must also have been beside" in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) The newborn.
(b) The loving.
(c) The dying.
(d) The young.

3. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," "the contradiction is a ____ one, that is, it resides in the bloom itself."
(a) Distinct.
(b) Pure.
(c) Complex.
(d) Alluring.

4. The accompaniment to writing poetry as a subject to Rilke is what?
(a) Water.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Living life.
(d) Love.

5. From what comes the line, "Murderers are / easily comprehended"?
(a) The Seven Phallic Poems.
(b) Duino Elegies.
(c) Sonnets to Orpheus.
(d) Letters to a Young Poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. The final lines of Rilke's epitaph read: "To be no one's sleep under so many ____."

3. Of what does Rilke write "that so strangely began with such a number of profound and grave transformation" in "Blood-Remembering"?

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

5. What is the principle subject of "Blood-Remembering"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is remarkable about Rilke's vision in "The Dragon-Princess"?

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

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

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

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