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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mood writes that Rilke's novel is "dialectically" what?
(a) Biographical.
(b) Semi-autobiographical.
(c) Surreal.
(d) Depressing.

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

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

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

5. One of the shortest of the love poems consists of the following two lines: "Also to affirm even ______ / like a thing."
(a) Lust.
(b) Rapture.
(c) Woman.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. The commentator notes that all of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" were written when he was how old?

2. Whose influence helped to expand Rilke's vision, according to Mood?

3. What does Rilke write is a simplification of one's way of life?

4. In Part IV of "The Seven Phallic Poems," the poet writes, "You don't know ______, with your diffidence."

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

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