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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 wrote less about the craft of writing than what, according to Mood?
(a) The integrity.
(b) The inner life discipline.
(c) The structure.
(d) The heart.

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

3. What does Rilke write of memories of parents in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Whom one still longs for.
(b) Whom one left behind.
(c) Whom one had to hurt.
(d) Whom one forgot.

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

5. From what novel is the excerpt "Blood-Remembering" taken?
(a) The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
(b) Into the Looking Glass.
(c) The Duino Elegies.
(d) Letters to a Young Poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke address in his epitaph?

2. Where does Rilke suggest a person might be removed from his room and placed, in discussing a metaphor for solitude?

3. From what comes the line, "Murderers are / easily comprehended"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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