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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 Rilke write that verses are in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Experiences.
(b) Memories.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Love.

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

3. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering," One must be able to forget them when they are many and one must have the great _____ to wait until they come again."
(a) Patience.
(b) Strength.
(c) Will.
(d) Fortitude.

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

5. In what town is Rilke buried?
(a) Raron.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mood writes that the affirmative tone of "The Dragon-Princess" comes from its ambiguity and what?

2. Of what excerpt does Mood write is "the most affirmative passage of nonfiction prose I have ever come across"?

3. Rilke writes that most people only know a corner of their room, and thus have a certain what?

4. In his final lines of the Epilogue, Mood writes, "That much would be sufficient--for beginning is perhaps the most ______ thing of all."

5. What must "one know" in order to write a single verse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Rilke remark in "Blood-Remembering" of the memories themselves?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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