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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Rilke when he wrote "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) His twenties.
(b) His thirties.
(c) His teens.
(d) His forties.

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

3. What does Rilke write that verses are in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Memories.
(c) Love.
(d) Experiences.

4. How much earlier than his death did Rilke pen his epitaph?
(a) One month.
(b) Fifteen months.
(c) Three years.
(d) Two months.

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

6. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that one must feel what?
(a) How the lights shine.
(b) How the birds fly.
(c) How the women weep.
(d) How the sheep sigh.

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

8. 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.

9. Of the book, Mood writes in the Epilogue, "My work here, then, is only a ______, as I indicated in the Prologue."
(a) Wrestling.
(b) Ending.
(c) Beginning.
(d) Overview.

10. What does Rilke write that one ought to wait and gather "a whole life long," in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Experience and memory.
(b) Sense and sweetness.
(c) Memory and truth.
(d) Age and memory.

11. Mood writes in the Epilogue that one translator said of Rilke's controversial line, "even ____would not bother to satirize."
(a) Van Gogh.
(b) Brockett.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Rodin.

12. What is the "romantic notion held by many young people," that Mood speaks of in introducing "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) That one needs only to experience things in order to know them.
(b) That life is meaningful without love.
(c) That the answers lie in the ink.
(d) The the answers exist.

13. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," "the contradiction is a ____ one, that is, it resides in the bloom itself."
(a) Pure.
(b) Distinct.
(c) Alluring.
(d) Complex.

14. From what comes the line, "Killing is a form of our wandering mourning"?
(a) The Seven Phallic Poems.
(b) Letters to a Young Poet.
(c) Duino Elegies.
(d) Sonnets to Orpheus.

15. Of what does Rilke write is, "to have courage for the most strange, most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter"?
(a) The only courage that is demanded of us.
(b) The singular obstacle in life.
(c) The only feeling we must feel.
(d) The single obstacle in love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word of Rilke's epitaph is set aside by commas?

2. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," that Rilke says of lovers, "Being full of life, ... are full of ____."

3. What word did Rilke have to express "world-inner-space"?`

4. Rilke wrote less about the craft of writing than what, according to Mood?

5. Who does Mood quote in the Epilogue as having written, "A social order which draws a distinction between the wish and the deed, between the criminal and the righteous, is this a kingdom of darkness"?

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