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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the poet refer to childhood days to recall in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Joyous.
(b) Explained.
(c) Still unexplained.
(d) Painful.

2. From which work of Samuel Beckett does Mood quote from in the Epilogue?
(a) Happy Days.
(b) Endgame.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) How It Is.

3. What would one feel, displaced from one's room and set in a place of great solitude?
(a) Great fear.
(b) Abiding love.
(c) Great bravery.
(d) Unparalleled insecurity.

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

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

6. In what year was Rilke's only full-length novel completed?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1922.

7. What word did Rilke have to express "world-inner-space"?`
(a) Liden.
(b) Weltinnenraum.
(c) Zukunft.
(d) Frielich.

8. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke suggests that we hold our life to the most difficult, and that which now "still seems to us the most alien will become" what?
(a) What blinds us.
(b) What frees us.
(c) What kills us.
(d) What we most trust.

9. What is the principle subject of "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Painting.
(b) Love.
(c) Writing.
(d) Sculpting.

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

11. Who does Mood quote in the Epilogue with the line, "... tormentor and tormented pedant and dunce wooer and wooed speechless and reafflicted with speech in the dark mud nothing to emend there"?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Jesus Christ.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Norman O. Brown.

12. Mood writes in the Epilogue, "Perhaps no poet, not even ____, grew poetically as much as Rilke."
(a) Keaton.
(b) Shelley.
(c) Byron.
(d) Yeats.

13. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," that Rilke had been fascinated by "that circling _____."
(a) Love.
(b) Peace.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Nothing.

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

15. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," that if we think of the existence of the individual as a "larger or smaller" what?
(a) Universe.
(b) Room.
(c) River.
(d) Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the sake of what, much one see many cities, men and things, etc.?

2. From which of Rilke's poems does Mood quote "The Difficulty of Dying," "the glance while, as though caught by a whirlpool's / circling, swims a little while"?

3. What does Mood compare "the wise old age" to in the introduction to "Blood-Remembering"?

4. In what town is Rilke buried?

5. What author does Rilke refer to in "The Dragon-Princess"?

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