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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In one untitled poem of "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Play the ____, the single ones, quickly and you..."
(a) Loves.
(b) Deaths.
(c) Harps.
(d) Kisses.

2. Rilke writes in an untitled poem, "Who keeps innerly _____, touches the roots of speech."
(a) Silent.
(b) Loved.
(c) Remembered.
(d) Stoic.

3. What sculptor had an influence on Rilke's writing?
(a) Rogarde.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Rodin.
(d) Da Vinci.

4. What book of Simone de Beauvoir's does the commentator say led him to "militant feminism" in the Introduction to "Rilke's Letters on Love"?
(a) Letters to a Young Poet.
(b) The Second Sex.
(c) The Woman's Life.
(d) The Feminist Manifesto.

5. From what collection is "The Poet Praises" taken?
(a) Duino Elegies.
(b) Cycle--Nights.
(c) Sonnets to Orpheus.
(d) Letters to a Young Poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?

2. What does Rilke write in Part V of "The Seven Phallic Poems" has "weakened you and me"?

3. The commentator regards that Rilke's "justly famed deep spirituality" is rooted essentially in what?

4. In Part IV of "The Seven Phallic Poems," the poet writes, "You don't know ______, with your diffidence."

5. What is the name of the artists' colony in Russian where Rilke was further influenced in his writing?

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