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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 Rilke write that he holds to be "the highest task of a bond between two people"?
(a) That they should hold no limits to their connection.
(b) That they should stand alone.
(c) That they should each stand guard over the solitude of the other.
(d) That they must live closely.

2. In what poem does Rilke write "Life and death: they are one, at core intertwined"?
(a) "The Poet Praises."
(b) "The Poet Speaks of Praising."
(c) "Woman's Lament II."
(d) "The Poems Praise."

3. Rilke is regarded in his letters and his writing to be distinctly ahead of his time in what respect?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Religion.
(c) Politics.
(d) Writing.

4. In "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes in one poem from 1924, "We are not to know why / this and that _____ us."
(a) Masters.
(b) Empowers.
(c) Weakens.
(d) Strengthens.

5. Mood writes that Rilke's novel is "dialectically" what?
(a) Biographical.
(b) Semi-autobiographical.
(c) Surreal.
(d) Depressing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one of the earliest figures of feminism who was friends with Rilke?

2. The commentator notes that all of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" were written when he was how old?

3. In the poem, "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke writes, "Night. Oh you in depths ______."

4. In "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke personifies "Night" as what?

5. What must "one know" in order to write a single verse?

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