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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blood-Remembering.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What of the sea does Rilke write of remembering in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Lovemaking.
(b) Mornings.
(c) Sunsets.
(d) Evenings.

2. In "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke personifies "Night" as what?
(a) A doom.
(b) A river.
(c) A lover.
(d) A bird.

3. Mood notes in his introduction to Rilke's poetry that the poet was "in no way an _______, nor in his life."
(a) Actor.
(b) Amateur.
(c) Artist.
(d) Aesthete.

4. In the poem, "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke writes, "Night. Oh you in depths ______."
(a) Weeping.
(b) Emerging.
(c) Sighing.
(d) Dissolving.

5. In what year did Rilke write "The Seven Phallic Poems"?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1925.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what fruit does Rilke write of in "The Poet Praises"?

2. What does Rilke write of "screams of women" in "Blood-Remembering"?

3. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."

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

5. The commentator concludes the introduction to Rilke's love poetry in saying, "Rilke's poetry is somewhat precious and even _______."

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