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

2. Rilke says in "The Dragon-Princess," that "the experiences called 'visions,' the whole so-called 'spirit world'," etc. has been so crowded out of life that the "sense we could have grasped them with has" done what?
(a) Atrophied.
(b) Melted.
(c) Diminished.
(d) Collapsed.

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

4. Who does Mood quote in the Epilogue as having written, "A social order which draws a distinction between the wish and the deed, between the criminal and the righteous, is this a kingdom of darkness"?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Jesus Christ.
(c) Norman O. Brown.
(d) Matthew.

5. What author does Rilke refer to in "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Poe.
(c) Byron.
(d) Shelley.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what form is "The Dragon-Princess"?

2. What does Rilke begin with in his discussion of "The Dragon-Princess"?

3. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," "We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not _______."

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

5. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," that Rilke says of lovers, "Being full of life, ... are full of ____."

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rilke say of "forgetting" in "Blood-Remembering"?

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

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

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

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

6. What must one "see" in order to write a single verse, according to Rilke?

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

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

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

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

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