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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
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) Dreamer.
(c) Weeper.
(d) Sleeper.
2. Rilke's final metaphor in "The Dragon-Princess" states that perhaps all the "dragons of our lives are" what?
(a) Pebbles.
(b) Aflame.
(c) Princesses.
(d) Love.
3. Which poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties" speaks of a king?
(a) "Greek Love-Talk."
(b) "Magic."
(c) "Gong."
(d) "Mausoleum."
4. What literary technique is used in the following? "lifted out of the riverbed of endless possibilities"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Irony.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Simile.
5. What does Rilke begin with in his discussion of "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) Patience.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Love.
Short Answer Questions
1. In which poem does Rilke begin, "She who sleeps... To be so very awake, / near pure waking, that we into sleepers grow"?
2. In one untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties," the poet writes, "Give me, oh earth, pure _____ / clay for the jug of tears."
3. Unlike the characters in Poe's stories, Rilke writes that we are not what?
4. Rilke writes in an untitled poem, "Who keeps innerly _____, touches the roots of speech."
5. In what amount of time did Rilke write over 1,600 lines of poetry plus a major essay during "the great giving"?
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