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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Rilke write "The Seven Phallic Poems"?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1940.

2. In "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke personifies "Night" as what?
(a) A doom.
(b) A bird.
(c) A river.
(d) A lover.

3. The commentator remarks in the Introduction, "It should be emphasized that Rilke's language is thoroughly _______."
(a) Explicit.
(b) Sensual.
(c) Narrow.
(d) Dramatic.

4. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that one must feel what?
(a) How the sheep sigh.
(b) How the birds fly.
(c) How the lights shine.
(d) How the women weep.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the shortest of the love poems consists of the following two lines: "Also to affirm even ______ / like a thing."

2. In the introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Love," the commentator states that Rilke's imagery is all what?

3. In which poem does Rilke begin, "She who sleeps... To be so very awake, / near pure waking, that we into sleepers grow"?

4. The poem "Gong" makes use of what literary technique?

5. In "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes in one poem from 1924, "We are not to know why / this and that _____ us."

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