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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 one untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties," the poet writes, "Give me, oh earth, pure _____ / clay for the jug of tears."
(a) Reserved.
(b) Unmingling.
(c) Resistent.
(d) Unmitigated.

2. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."
(a) Nature.
(b) Love.
(c) Children.
(d) Sex.

3. 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 frees us.
(b) What kills us.
(c) What we most trust.
(d) What blinds us.

4. What does Rilke write in Part V of "The Seven Phallic Poems" has "weakened you and me"?
(a) Too great a distance.
(b) Too ample space.
(c) Too strong an adversary.
(d) Too strong a love.

5. In "Blood-Remembering," from what comes poetry?
(a) Truth.
(b) Blood-remembering.
(c) Life.
(d) Secrets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes, "So for him who becomes solitary, all distances, all measures ____."

2. How does the poet refer to childhood days to recall in "Blood-Remembering"?

3. The first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?

4. Of what excerpt does Mood write is "the most affirmative passage of nonfiction prose I have ever come across"?

5. In the poem, "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke writes, "Night. Oh you in depths ______."

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