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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mood compare "the wise old age" to in the introduction to "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Dew.
(b) Ripe fruit.
(c) Teardrops.
(d) Rose petals.

3. In a very short untitled poem, Rilke writes, "The voices warned me so I _____."
(a) Desisted.
(b) Wept.
(c) Ran.
(d) Ceased.

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

5. The commentator notes that all of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" were written when he was how old?
(a) His twenties.
(b) His thirties and forties.
(c) His fifties.
(d) His forties and fifties.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For the sake of what, much one see many cities, men and things, etc.?

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

4. Rilke writes in his letters, "Why have they made our sex _______, instead of making it the place for the festival of our competency?"

5. Writing of one of his principle motifs, the poet writes, "Transform stamen on stamen, / fill your interior _____."

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