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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 did Rilke write the "Woman's Lament" poems?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1935.

2. What did the commentator originally call the selections of Rilke's letters which he copied and gave out?
(a) "Notes on Love."
(b) "Letters of Love."
(c) "Rilke on Love."
(d) "The Love Letters."

3. In which poem does Rilke begin, "She who sleeps... To be so very awake, / near pure waking, that we into sleepers grow"?
(a) "Music."
(b) "Magic."
(c) "Greek Love-Talk."
(d) "The Lovers."

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

5. What does Rilke write that verses are in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Memories.
(b) Experiences.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part IV of "The Seven Phallic Poems," the poet writes, "You don't know ______, with your diffidence."

2. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering," One must be able to forget them when they are many and one must have the great _____ to wait until they come again."

3. The commentator notes that all of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" were written when he was how old?

4. In the seventh of "The Seven Phallic Poems," what does the poet write that his "semen climbs gladly like"?

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

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