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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that "verses are not, as people imagine," what?
(a) Simply feelings.
(b) Memories.
(c) Words of love.
(d) Truth.

3. What does Rilke begin with in his discussion of "The Dragon-Princess"?
(a) Love.
(b) Solitude.
(c) Patience.
(d) Virtue.

4. Who does the commentator conclude that Rilke's epitaph addresses?
(a) God.
(b) Orpheus.
(c) Pan.
(d) Madonna.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The final lines of Rilke's epitaph read: "To be no one's sleep under so many ____."

2. How old was Rilke when he wrote "The Dragon-Princess"?

3. What does Rilke write one "must also have been beside" in "Blood-Remembering"?

4. What does Rilke refer to death as?

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What metaphor does Rilke use in describing solitude in "The Dragon-Princess"?

2. What word does Mood focus on regarding Rilke's writing of "The Dragon-Princess"?

3. What comparison does Rilke use to explain human experience in "The Dragon-Princess"?

4. What does Mood discuss in the introduction to "The Dragon-Princess"?

5. In "Blood-Remembering," what does Rilke write about the young as writers?

6. What is the poem discussed in "The Difficulty of Dying"?

7. What does Mood posit that the word "Desire" implies in "The Difficulty of Dying"?

8. What does "under so many lids" reference in "The Difficulty of Dying"?

9. What does Rilke remark in "Blood-Remembering" of the memories themselves?

10. Of what does Rilke say regarding insecurity in human relationships in "The Dragon-Princess"?

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