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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 "that rushed along on high and flew with all the stars"?
(a) Kisses of beauty.
(b) Days of wandering.
(c) Nights of travel.
(d) Childbirth.

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

3. What does Rilke write is a simplification of one's way of life?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Love.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Sex.

4. In what year did Rilke write the "Woman's Lament" poems?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1925.

5. What does the poet say in his untitled poem to do with that which, "offers itself to us with starlight"?
(a) Take it seriously.
(b) Let it be free.
(c) Hide from it.
(d) Cry with it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What book of Simone de Beauvoir's does the commentator say led him to "militant feminism" in the Introduction to "Rilke's Letters on Love"?

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 one untitled love poem, Rilke writes, "Drinking would seem too much, too ____, to me"?

5. In the excerpt of Rilke's letter in the Introduction, what essay does he refer to reading?

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