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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blood-Remembering.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The accompaniment to writing poetry as a subject to Rilke is what?
(a) Living life.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Love.
(d) Water.
2. In one untitled love poem, Rilke writes, "Drinking would seem too much, too ____, to me"?
(a) Plain.
(b) Loving.
(c) Lustful.
(d) Overwhelming.
3. In which poem does Rilke begin, "She who sleeps... To be so very awake, / near pure waking, that we into sleepers grow"?
(a) "Music."
(b) "Greek Love-Talk."
(c) "Magic."
(d) "The Lovers."
4. From whose point of view does the passage in "Blood-Remembering" come?
(a) Sarah.
(b) William.
(c) Johnathan.
(d) Malte.
5. In the second of "The Seven Phallic Poems," who does the poet claim is "drawing my seed up into an abrupt tree"?
(a) A maiden.
(b) A garden.
(c) Love.
(d) Summer.
Short Answer Questions
1. Rilke writes in his letters, "Why have they made our sex _______, instead of making it the place for the festival of our competency?"
2. What book of Simone de Beauvoir's does the commentator say led him to "militant feminism" in the Introduction to "Rilke's Letters on Love"?
3. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?
4. In "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke personifies "Night" as what?
5. Who is one of the earliest figures of feminism who was friends with Rilke?
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