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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The accompaniment to writing poetry as a subject to Rilke is what?
(a) Love.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Living life.
(d) Water.

2. What does the poet say in his untitled poem to do with that which, "offers itself to us with starlight"?
(a) Let it be free.
(b) Hide from it.
(c) Cry with it.
(d) Take it seriously.

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

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

5. In one untitled poem of "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Play the ____, the single ones, quickly and you..."
(a) Loves.
(b) Kisses.
(c) Harps.
(d) Deaths.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the poet refer to childhood days to recall 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. What does Mood compare "the wise old age" to in the introduction to "Blood-Remembering"?

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

5. In what poem does Rilke write "Life and death: they are one, at core intertwined"?

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