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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rilke writes, as the first lines of "Blood-Remembering," "Ah! but verses amount to so little when one writes them _____."
(a) Blind.
(b) Young.
(c) Through dreams.
(d) Old.

2. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that quite at the end of life, one might be able to write how many verses that were good?
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Six.

3. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?
(a) To love one another.
(b) To leave one's love.
(c) To stand alone.
(d) To birth a child.

4. Rilke remarks in his letters that his sex is "not directed only toward posterity" but is is what?
(a) "The solution of days."
(b) "The joy of my life."
(c) "The secret of my own life."
(d) "The answer within the wind."

5. In what poem does Rilke write "Life and death: they are one, at core intertwined"?
(a) "The Poems Praise."
(b) "The Poet Praises."
(c) "Woman's Lament II."
(d) "The Poet Speaks of Praising."

Short Answer Questions

1. Two-thirds of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" come from what year?

2. In the seventh of "The Seven Phallic Poems," what does the poet write that his "semen climbs gladly like"?

3. In what year was Rilke's only full-length novel completed?

4. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?

5. What does Rilke write of memories of parents in "Blood-Remembering"?

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