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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rilke write of memories of parents in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Whom one had to hurt.
(b) Whom one forgot.
(c) Whom one still longs for.
(d) Whom one left behind.

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

3. Writing of one of his principle motifs, the poet writes, "Transform stamen on stamen, / fill your interior _____."
(a) Pitcher.
(b) Death.
(c) Rose.
(d) Heart.

4. Rilke writes in "The Seven Phallic Poems," "We close ______ by means of our gazes."
(a) Our lips.
(b) Our blankets.
(c) The night.
(d) A circle.

5. From what collection is "The Poet Praises" taken?
(a) Letters to a Young Poet.
(b) Cycle--Nights.
(c) Sonnets to Orpheus.
(d) Duino Elegies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Rilke write "that so strangely began with such a number of profound and grave transformation" in "Blood-Remembering"?

2. What did the commentator originally call the selections of Rilke's letters which he copied and gave out?

3. What does Mood write is the fallacy of expression theory in art?

4. Rilke writes in an untitled poem, "Who keeps innerly _____, touches the roots of speech."

5. In which poem does Rilke begin, "She who sleeps... To be so very awake, / near pure waking, that we into sleepers grow"?

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