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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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."
(a) Fortitude.
(b) Will.
(c) Strength.
(d) Patience.

2. One poem, using nature imagery, reads, "Cheerful gift from the chillier / mountains / attempts to leap into ____."
(a) August.
(b) June.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

3. In what amount of time did Rilke write over 1,600 lines of poetry plus a major essay during "the great giving"?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) Six months.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Three months.

4. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?
(a) To leave one's love.
(b) To stand alone.
(c) To birth a child.
(d) To love one another.

5. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?
(a) The rose-gatherer.
(b) The soldier.
(c) The gardener.
(d) The maiden.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke personifies "Night" as what?

2. In what year was Rilke born?

3. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?

4. Who does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?

5. Rilke writes in an untitled poem, "Who keeps innerly _____, touches the roots of speech."

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