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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 is the principle subject of "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Love.
(b) Sculpting.
(c) Painting.
(d) Writing.

2. What "gesture" must one know in order to write?
(a) Of the rivers running.
(b) With which the flowers open.
(c) Of the music.
(d) Of the seas.

3. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," that if we think of the existence of the individual as a "larger or smaller" what?
(a) Room.
(b) River.
(c) Ocean.
(d) Universe.

4. What does Rilke write of "screams of women" in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) In labor.
(b) In heartbreak.
(c) In regret.
(d) In sorrow.

5. What does Rilke begin with in his discussion of "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) Solitude.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Patience.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke refer to death as?

2. Which word of Rilke's epitaph is set aside by commas?

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

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

5. What does Rilke write that one ought to wait and gather "a whole life long," in "Blood-Remembering"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does "Blood-Remembering" mean?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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