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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For the sake of what, much one see many cities, men and things, etc.?
(a) A poem.
(b) A single verse.
(c) A novel.
(d) A song.

2. Of what fruit does Rilke write of in "The Poet Praises"?
(a) Banana.
(b) Orange.
(c) Grapefruit.
(d) Strawberry.

3. Whose influence helped to expand Rilke's vision, according to Mood?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Donne.
(d) Beckett.

4. Unlike the characters in Poe's stories, Rilke writes that we are not what?
(a) Rats.
(b) Prisoners.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Idiots.

5. Rilke's final metaphor in "The Dragon-Princess" states that perhaps all the "dragons of our lives are" what?
(a) Princesses.
(b) Love.
(c) Pebbles.
(d) Aflame.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?

2. What does the commentator say was Rilke's mode of exploration during "the long periods between his well-known great creative bursts of energy"?

3. Of what does Rilke write "that so strangely began with such a number of profound and grave transformation" in "Blood-Remembering"?

4. In the Prologue, who does the commentator say is the other of the two greatest writers of the twentieth century?

5. From whose point of view does the passage in "Blood-Remembering" come?

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