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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rilke's letters are examples of what?
(a) Prose.
(b) Verisimilitude.
(c) Verse.
(d) Irony.

2. What does Rilke comment in the excerpt from the Introduction that Eros "cannot be"?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Fair.
(d) Faithful.

3. In the Prologue, who does the commentator say is the other of the two greatest writers of the twentieth century?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

4. In the introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Love," the commentator states that Rilke's imagery is all what?
(a) Heavenly.
(b) Surreal.
(c) Earthly.
(d) Unnatural.

5. What does Rilke write about in conjunction with love and sex in Part VI of "The Seven Phallic Poems"?
(a) Worry.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Redemption.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Gravity," Rilke writes, "Yet from the _____ falls, / as from a stored up cloud, / abundant rain of force."

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

3. In what year was Rilke's only full-length novel completed?

4. What does Rilke write in his first letter, imploring the reader to try to love?

5. Rilke writes that most people only know a corner of their room, and thus have a certain what?

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