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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 "screams of women" in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) In regret.
(b) In heartbreak.
(c) In labor.
(d) In sorrow.

2. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering," One must be able to forget them when they are many and one must have the great _____ to wait until they come again."
(a) Patience.
(b) Will.
(c) Strength.
(d) Fortitude.

3. In one untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties," the poet writes, "Give me, oh earth, pure _____ / clay for the jug of tears."
(a) Resistent.
(b) Reserved.
(c) Unmitigated.
(d) Unmingling.

4. Rilke writes in one untitled poem, "Like the _____ of quickly grown-up girls / one braids differently."
(a) Lipstick.
(b) Ringlets.
(c) Hairpins.
(d) Pigtails.

5. In one of the untitled love poems, Rilke writes, "What fields are fragrant as your ______?"
(a) Eyes.
(b) Hands.
(c) Lips.
(d) Kiss.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the poet refer to childhood days to recall in "Blood-Remembering"?

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

3. Which poem begins with the line, "And the last perhaps will not return"?

4. What does Rilke write that he holds to be "the highest task of a bond between two people"?

5. In the second of "The Seven Phallic Poems," who does the poet claim is "drawing my seed up into an abrupt tree"?

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