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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dragon-Princess.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Gravity," Rilke writes, "Yet from the _____ falls, / as from a stored up cloud, / abundant rain of force."
(a) Lover.
(b) Weeper.
(c) Dreamer.
(d) Sleeper.

2. In the seventh of "The Seven Phallic Poems," what does the poet write that his "semen climbs gladly like"?
(a) A tree.
(b) A tower.
(c) A child.
(d) A god.

3. In what poem does Rilke write "Life and death: they are one, at core intertwined"?
(a) "The Poems Praise."
(b) "Woman's Lament II."
(c) "The Poet Praises."
(d) "The Poet Speaks of Praising."

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

5. In one untitled poem of "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Play the ____, the single ones, quickly and you..."
(a) Deaths.
(b) Harps.
(c) Kisses.
(d) Loves.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes in one poem from 1924, "We are not to know why / this and that _____ us."

2. One poem, using nature imagery, reads, "Cheerful gift from the chillier / mountains / attempts to leap into ____."

3. What does Rilke write in Part V of "The Seven Phallic Poems" has "weakened you and me"?

4. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke writes that the feeling one might have placed in total isolation, is "an abandonment to something inexpressible would almost ______ him."

5. What does the poet say in his untitled poem to do with that which, "offers itself to us with starlight"?

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