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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) Harps.
(b) Deaths.
(c) Kisses.
(d) Loves.

2. Rilke's letters are examples of what?
(a) Verse.
(b) Verisimilitude.
(c) Prose.
(d) Irony.

3. The poem "Gong" makes use of what literary technique?
(a) Segmentation.
(b) Irony.
(c) Absurdism.
(d) Onomatapeia.

4. How does the poet refer to childhood days to recall in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Joyous.
(b) Still unexplained.
(c) Explained.
(d) Painful.

5. 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) Patience.
(b) Strength.
(c) Will.
(d) Fortitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "gesture" must one know in order to write?

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

3. Who is one of the earliest figures of feminism who was friends with Rilke?

4. What does Rilke comment in the excerpt from the Introduction that Eros "cannot be"?

5. What does Rilke write "that rushed along on high and flew with all the stars"?

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