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

2. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that quite at the end of life, one might be able to write how many verses that were good?
(a) One.
(b) Ten.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

3. Of what does Rilke write "that so strangely began with such a number of profound and grave transformation" in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Of depressions.
(b) Of childhood illnesses.
(c) Of lost loves.
(d) Of painful thoughts.

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

5. Who does Mood quote in the Epilogue with the line, "... tormentor and tormented pedant and dunce wooer and wooed speechless and reafflicted with speech in the dark mud nothing to emend there"?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Norman O. Brown.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Jesus Christ.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Mood writes in the Epilogue, "Perhaps no poet, not even ____, grew poetically as much as Rilke."

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

4. What does Rilke write of memories of parents in "Blood-Remembering"?

5. 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."

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In "Blood-Remembering," what is the author's discussion of writing from "feelings"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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