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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?
(a) Letters to a Young Poet.
(b) Lessons of a Forgotten Soul.
(c) The Grapes of Wrath.
(d) The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

2. What is the principle subject of "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Love.
(b) Sculpting.
(c) Writing.
(d) Painting.

3. What does Mood compare "the wise old age" to in the introduction to "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Teardrops.
(b) Dew.
(c) Ripe fruit.
(d) Rose petals.

4. What does Rilke write of memories of parents in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Whom one had to hurt.
(b) Whom one forgot.
(c) Whom one still longs for.
(d) Whom one left behind.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties" speaks of a king?

2. What does the translator comment in the Prologue that his translations of Rilke are?

3. Rilke wrote less about the craft of writing than what, according to Mood?

4. In one untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties," the poet writes, "Give me, oh earth, pure _____ / clay for the jug of tears."

5. In the Prologue, who does the commentator say is the other of the two greatest writers of the twentieth century?

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