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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poem "Gong" makes use of what literary technique?
(a) Onomatapeia.
(b) Segmentation.
(c) Irony.
(d) Absurdism.

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

3. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," "We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not _______."
(a) Against us.
(b) Killing us.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Deadly.

4. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."
(a) Woman.
(b) Phalli.
(c) Silence.
(d) Kiss.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?

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

3. In what poem does Rilke write "Life and death: they are one, at core intertwined"?

4. On what word does Mood focus in examining the ambiguity of "The Dragon-Princess"?

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

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