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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part IV of "The Seven Phallic Poems," the poet writes, "You don't know ______, with your diffidence."
(a) Towers.
(b) Sex.
(c) Gods.
(d) Love.

2. Two-thirds of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" come from what year?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1915.

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

4. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?
(a) Failing.
(b) Ending.
(c) Trying.
(d) Beginning.

5. The commentator notes that all of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" were written when he was how old?
(a) His twenties.
(b) His thirties and forties.
(c) His forties and fifties.
(d) His fifties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke write in his first letter, imploring the reader to try to love?

2. In what amount of time did Rilke write over 1,600 lines of poetry plus a major essay during "the great giving"?

3. The poem "Gong" makes use of what literary technique?

4. Over what does the poet write, "we will together contend" in "Greek Love-Talk"?

5. What does Rilke write of "screams of women" in "Blood-Remembering"?

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