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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the "romantic notion held by many young people," that Mood speaks of in introducing "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) That the answers lie in the ink.
(b) That one needs only to experience things in order to know them.
(c) The the answers exist.
(d) That life is meaningful without love.

2. In one untitled love poem, Rilke writes, "Drinking would seem too much, too ____, to me"?
(a) Overwhelming.
(b) Lustful.
(c) Plain.
(d) Loving.

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

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

5. In the poem, "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke writes, "Night. Oh you in depths ______."
(a) Emerging.
(b) Weeping.
(c) Dissolving.
(d) Sighing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that "verses are not, as people imagine," what?

2. What literary term applies to the following: "exhaust yourself like a spring"?

3. In one untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties," the poet writes, "Give me, oh earth, pure _____ / clay for the jug of tears."

4. What does Rilke write one "must also have been beside" in "Blood-Remembering"?

5. Who does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?

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