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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 one "must also have been beside" in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) The newborn.
(b) The young.
(c) The dying.
(d) The loving.

2. Of what does Rilke write "that so strangely began with such a number of profound and grave transformation" in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Of lost loves.
(b) Of painful thoughts.
(c) Of depressions.
(d) Of childhood illnesses.

3. What does Rilke write about in conjunction with love and sex in Part VI of "The Seven Phallic Poems"?
(a) Death.
(b) Redemption.
(c) Worry.
(d) Guilt.

4. What "gesture" must one know in order to write?
(a) Of the music.
(b) With which the flowers open.
(c) Of the rivers running.
(d) Of the seas.

5. In the excerpt of Rilke's letter in the Introduction, what essay does he refer to reading?
(a) Cicero's Symposium.
(b) Platos' Cave.
(c) Homer's Odyssey.
(d) Plato's Symposium.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?

2. In a very short untitled poem, Rilke writes, "The voices warned me so I _____."

3. In the poem, "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke writes, "Night. Oh you in depths ______."

4. Rilke writes in one letter, "Almost everything ______ is difficult, and everything is _______."

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

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