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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rilke's letters are examples of what?
(a) Irony.
(b) Prose.
(c) Verse.
(d) Verisimilitude.

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

3. From what novel is the excerpt "Blood-Remembering" taken?
(a) The Duino Elegies.
(b) Letters to a Young Poet.
(c) Into the Looking Glass.
(d) The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

4. Rilke writes in one letter, "At bottom ______ can help anyone else in life."
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) Everyone.
(d) No one.

5. What does Rilke suggest that the young are apt to do in love?
(a) Not listen to each other.
(b) Marry for money.
(c) Give oneself away.
(d) Stand solitary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."

2. What does Mood write is the fallacy of expression theory in art?

3. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?

4. From what collection is "The Poet Praises" taken?

5. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?

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