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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. Where does Rilke suggest a person might be removed from his room and placed, in discussing a metaphor for solitude?
(a) An endless sea.
(b) A spider web.
(c) A vast desert.
(d) A great mountain.

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

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

4. What does Rilke write one "must also have been beside" in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) The young.
(b) The loving.
(c) The newborn.
(d) The dying.

5. What literary technique is used in the following? "lifted out of the riverbed of endless possibilities"?
(a) Irony.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Assonance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke address in his epitaph?

2. What of the sea does Rilke write of remembering in "Blood-Remembering"?

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

4. What shall we "indeed turn" upon recognizing our solitude in "The Dragon-Princess"?

5. Who said, "You have heard that it was said to the men of old, 'You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment.' But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment."

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rilke remark of childhood memories in "Blood-Remembering"?

2. What does Mood preface "Blood-Remembering" with, in discussing the poet?

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

4. What does Mood say of Orpheus in his interpretation of "The Difficulty of Dying"?

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

6. What does Mood believe Rilke associated between life and death?

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

8. What does Rilke speak of initially regarding solitude in "The Dragon-Princess"?

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

10. What has Rilke accomplished in his epitaph, according to Mood?

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