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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) Weeper.
(b) Lover.
(c) Dreamer.
(d) Sleeper.

2. Writing of one of his principle motifs, the poet writes, "Transform stamen on stamen, / fill your interior _____."
(a) Pitcher.
(b) Death.
(c) Heart.
(d) Rose.

3. From what collection is "The Poet Praises" taken?
(a) Letters to a Young Poet.
(b) Sonnets to Orpheus.
(c) Duino Elegies.
(d) Cycle--Nights.

4. What would one feel, displaced from one's room and set in a place of great solitude?
(a) Unparalleled insecurity.
(b) Abiding love.
(c) Great fear.
(d) Great bravery.

5. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke suggests that we hold our life to the most difficult, and that which now "still seems to us the most alien will become" what?
(a) What blinds us.
(b) What frees us.
(c) What we most trust.
(d) What kills us.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, with absinthe, "trickle through silent sieves of kisses of bitter essence"?

2. What is the name of the artists' colony in Russian where Rilke was further influenced in his writing?

3. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."

4. In a very short untitled poem, Rilke writes, "The voices warned me so I _____."

5. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke writes "That mankind has in this sense been cowardly has done life endless _____."

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