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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the last of the untitled love poems, the poet writes, "Do you feel, distant dear miss, / since you are _______ me."
(a) Kissing.
(b) Loving.
(c) Reading.
(d) Caressing.

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

3. 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."
(a) Strength.
(b) Fortitude.
(c) Patience.
(d) Will.

4. Rilke writes in his letters, "Why have they made our sex _______, instead of making it the place for the festival of our competency?"
(a) Homeless.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Loving.
(d) Carefree.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. The translator claims that the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" deserve to take their place alongside whose great love poems?

5. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?

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