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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is one of the earliest figures of feminism who was friends with Rilke?
(a) Ellen Page.
(b) Victoria Ellison.
(c) Sarah Albright.
(d) Ellen Kay.

2. In "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes in one poem from 1924, "We are not to know why / this and that _____ us."
(a) Masters.
(b) Strengthens.
(c) Empowers.
(d) Weakens.

3. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that one must feel what?
(a) How the sheep sigh.
(b) How the birds fly.
(c) How the lights shine.
(d) How the women weep.

4. In "Gravity," Rilke writes, "Yet from the _____ falls, / as from a stored up cloud, / abundant rain of force."
(a) Dreamer.
(b) Weeper.
(c) Lover.
(d) Sleeper.

5. What does Rilke write about in conjunction with love and sex in Part VI of "The Seven Phallic Poems"?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Redemption.
(c) Death.
(d) Worry.

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

3. In Part III of "The Seven Phallic Poems," Rilke writes, "Granted by you, the image of the ____ stands/at the gentle crossroads under my clothes."

4. In introducing Rilke's love poetry, the commentator notes that the poet's sexual and sensual undertones are mostly overlooked because of the striking impact of what?

5. In the Prologue, who does the commentator say is the other of the two greatest writers of the twentieth century?

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