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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mood comment that "Blood-Remembering" answers the aesthetic fallacy of?
(a) The yearning for more.
(b) The final judgment.
(c) The expression theory of art.
(d) The impatience of youth.

2. On what word does Mood focus in examining the ambiguity of "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) Hope.
(b) Until.
(c) Maybe.
(d) Perhaps.

3. What literary term applies to the following: "exhaust yourself like a spring"?
(a) Irony.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

4. Where does Rilke suggest a person might be removed from his room and placed, in discussing a metaphor for solitude?
(a) An endless sea.
(b) A great mountain.
(c) A vast desert.
(d) A spider web.

5. What has the fear of the inexplicable also impoverished, according to Rilke?
(a) Trust in God.
(b) Relationships between human beings.
(c) Belief in self.
(d) Relationships with God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Two-thirds of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" come from what year?

2. Rilke says in "The Dragon-Princess," that "the experiences called 'visions,' the whole so-called 'spirit world'," etc. has been so crowded out of life that the "sense we could have grasped them with has" done what?

3. Over what does the poet write, "we will together contend" in "Greek Love-Talk"?

4. The translator claims that the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" deserve to take their place alongside whose great love poems?

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

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