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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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."

2. When did Rilke undertake "the great giving"?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1900.

3. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."
(a) Nature.
(b) Children.
(c) Love.
(d) Sex.

4. How does the poet refer to childhood days to recall in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Explained.
(b) Joyous.
(c) Painful.
(d) Still unexplained.

5. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?
(a) The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
(b) Lessons of a Forgotten Soul.
(c) Letters to a Young Poet.
(d) The Grapes of Wrath.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke write is a simplification of one's way of life?

2. Rilke writes in an untitled poem, "Who keeps innerly _____, touches the roots of speech."

3. Rilke writes, as the first lines of "Blood-Remembering," "Ah! but verses amount to so little when one writes them _____."

4. In one untitled poem of "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Play the ____, the single ones, quickly and you..."

5. 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"?

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