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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the shortest of the love poems consists of the following two lines: "Also to affirm even ______ / like a thing."
(a) Love.
(b) Rapture.
(c) Woman.
(d) Lust.

2. In what amount of time did Rilke write over 1,600 lines of poetry plus a major essay during "the great giving"?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) Six months.
(c) Three months.
(d) Three weeks.

3. In the poem, "Mausoleum," what punctuation does Rilke use in a nontraditional way, at the beginning of two lines?
(a) A comma.
(b) A period.
(c) A semicolon.
(d) A colon.

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

5. Rilke writes, as the first lines of "Blood-Remembering," "Ah! but verses amount to so little when one writes them _____."
(a) Old.
(b) Young.
(c) Blind.
(d) Through dreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Rilke undertake "the great giving"?

2. In what year did Rilke write the "Woman's Lament" poems?

3. In "Gravity," Rilke writes, "Yet from the _____ falls, / as from a stored up cloud, / abundant rain of force."

4. In the last of the untitled love poems, the poet writes, "Do you feel, distant dear miss, / since you are _______ me."

5. What does Rilke write that one ought to wait and gather "a whole life long," in "Blood-Remembering"?

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