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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is one of the earliest figures of feminism who was friends with Rilke?
(a) Sarah Albright.
(b) Ellen Kay.
(c) Victoria Ellison.
(d) Ellen Page.

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

3. What is the "romantic notion held by many young people," that Mood speaks of in introducing "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) That the answers lie in the ink.
(b) That life is meaningful without love.
(c) That one needs only to experience things in order to know them.
(d) The the answers exist.

4. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Ballerina.
(c) Nightingale.
(d) Sparrow.

5. What is the title of the poem which begins, "Center, how you draw yourself out"?
(a) "Magic."
(b) "Force of Gravity."
(c) "Music."
(d) "From the Cycle: Nights."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke write that he holds to be "the highest task of a bond between two people"?

2. 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."

3. In one untitled poem of "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Play the ____, the single ones, quickly and you..."

4. In the last of the untitled love poems, the poet writes, "Do you feel, distant dear miss, / since you are _______ me."

5. What of the sea does Rilke write of remembering in "Blood-Remembering"?

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