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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 commentator say was Rilke's mode of exploration during "the long periods between his well-known great creative bursts of energy"?
(a) Sculpting.
(b) Painting.
(c) Letter-writing.
(d) Teaching.

2. What does Mood comment that "Blood-Remembering" answers the aesthetic fallacy of?
(a) The impatience of youth.
(b) The final judgment.
(c) The expression theory of art.
(d) The yearning for more.

3. In "Blood-Remembering," from what comes poetry?
(a) Life.
(b) Truth.
(c) Blood-remembering.
(d) Secrets.

4. When did Rilke undertake "the great giving"?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1922.

5. Which poem begins, "See how in their veins all becomes spirit"?
(a) "Woman's Lament I."
(b) "The Lovers."
(c) "The Seven Phallic Poems."
(d) "Greek Love-Talk."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mood compare "the wise old age" to in the introduction to "Blood-Remembering"?

3. The commentator regards that Rilke's "justly famed deep spirituality" is rooted essentially in what?

4. Writing of one of his principle motifs, the poet writes, "Transform stamen on stamen, / fill your interior _____."

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

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