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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose influence helped to expand Rilke's vision, according to Mood?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Donne.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Nietzsche.

2. What does Rilke write that he holds to be "the highest task of a bond between two people"?
(a) That they should stand alone.
(b) That they should each stand guard over the solitude of the other.
(c) That they must live closely.
(d) That they should hold no limits to their connection.

3. What does Rilke accuse of vilifying sensuality and love?
(a) The government.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Womankind.
(d) Mankind.

4. In what year did Rilke write "The Seven Phallic Poems"?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1905.

5. What literary term applies to the following: "exhaust yourself like a spring"?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Irony.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Rilke writes in one letter, "At bottom ______ can help anyone else in life."

3. What does Rilke write in Part V of "The Seven Phallic Poems" has "weakened you and me"?

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

5. From whose point of view does the passage in "Blood-Remembering" come?

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