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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Of what does Rilke write "that so strangely began with such a number of profound and grave transformation" in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Of childhood illnesses.
(b) Of depressions.
(c) Of lost loves.
(d) Of painful thoughts.

4. What does Rilke write is a simplification of one's way of life?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Love.
(d) Sex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Blood-Remembering," Rilke writes "One must be able to think back to roads in ________."

2. When did Rilke undertake "the great giving"?

3. Whose influence helped to expand Rilke's vision, according to Mood?

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

5. In introducing Rilke's love poetry, the commentator notes that the poet's sexual and sensual undertones are mostly overlooked because of the striking impact of what?

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