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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Rilke's only full-length novel completed?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1925.

2. Of what fruit does Rilke write of in "The Poet Praises"?
(a) Grapefruit.
(b) Orange.
(c) Banana.
(d) Strawberry.

3. This first poem in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" is titled what?
(a) "The Poet Praises."
(b) "The Poems Praise."
(c) "The Poet Speaks of Praising."
(d) "The Cycle of Night."

4. For the sake of what, much one see many cities, men and things, etc.?
(a) A poem.
(b) A novel.
(c) A song.
(d) A single verse.

5. Rilke writes in "The Seven Phallic Poems," "We close ______ by means of our gazes."
(a) A circle.
(b) Our lips.
(c) The night.
(d) Our blankets.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the shortest of the love poems consists of the following two lines: "Also to affirm even ______ / like a thing."

2. In what year did Rilke write "The Seven Phallic Poems"?

3. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?

4. What does the commentator say was Rilke's mode of exploration during "the long periods between his well-known great creative bursts of energy"?

5. What is the title of the poem which begins, "From indescribable transformation flash / such creations--: Feel! and trust!"?

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