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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 the translator comment in the Prologue that his translations of Rilke are?
(a) Eloquent.
(b) Exact.
(c) Inadequate.
(d) Beautiful.

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

3. In the introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Love," the commentator states that Rilke's imagery is all what?
(a) Unnatural.
(b) Heavenly.
(c) Earthly.
(d) Surreal.

4. In "Gravity," Rilke writes, "Yet from the _____ falls, / as from a stored up cloud, / abundant rain of force."
(a) Dreamer.
(b) Sleeper.
(c) Weeper.
(d) Lover.

5. What literary term applies to the following: "exhaust yourself like a spring"?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Irony.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke write that one ought to wait and gather "a whole life long," in "Blood-Remembering"?

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

3. From what novel is the excerpt "Blood-Remembering" taken?

4. In one untitled love poem, Rilke writes, "Drinking would seem too much, too ____, to me"?

5. In the second of "The Seven Phallic Poems," who does the poet claim is "drawing my seed up into an abrupt tree"?

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