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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Difficulty of Dying: Rilke's Self-Composed Epitaph.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what comes the line, "Murderers are / easily comprehended"?
(a) Duino Elegies.
(b) Sonnets to Orpheus.
(c) Letters to a Young Poet.
(d) The Seven Phallic Poems.

2. What does the poet say in his untitled poem to do with that which, "offers itself to us with starlight"?
(a) Hide from it.
(b) Take it seriously.
(c) Let it be free.
(d) Cry with it.

3. From what novel is the excerpt "Blood-Remembering" taken?
(a) Letters to a Young Poet.
(b) The Duino Elegies.
(c) Into the Looking Glass.
(d) The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

4. What author does Rilke refer to in "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Shelley.
(c) Byron.
(d) Poe.

5. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," He would think himself falling or hurled _________, or exploded into a thousand pieces."
(a) Into the ocean.
(b) Onto the moon.
(c) Across the universe.
(d) Out into space.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke refer to death as?

2. Which poem begins, "See how in their veins all becomes spirit"?

3. What is the principle subject of "Blood-Remembering"?

4. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," "We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not _______."

5. What does Mood write is the fallacy of expression theory in art?

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