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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. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," "the contradiction is a ____ one, that is, it resides in the bloom itself."
(a) Alluring.
(b) Complex.
(c) Distinct.
(d) Pure.

2. Who does the commentator conclude that Rilke's epitaph addresses?
(a) Pan.
(b) Madonna.
(c) Orpheus.
(d) God.

3. From what comes the line, "Murderers are / easily comprehended"?
(a) Duino Elegies.
(b) The Seven Phallic Poems.
(c) Sonnets to Orpheus.
(d) Letters to a Young Poet.

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

5. Mood writes that the affirmative tone of "The Dragon-Princess" comes from its ambiguity and what?
(a) Tentativeness.
(b) Power.
(c) Faith.
(d) Naivete.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Rilke write is, "to have courage for the most strange, most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter"?

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

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

4. What does Rilke refer to death as?

5. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," that Rilke had been fascinated by "that circling _____."

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe in your own words what Rilke means in his metaphor of man's world in "The Dragon-Princess."

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What comparison does Rilke use to explain human experience in "The Dragon-Princess"?

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

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

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