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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Blood-Remembering," Rilke writes "One must be able to think back to roads in ________."
(a) Unknown regions.
(b) Remote lands.
(c) Childhood memory.
(d) Days of yore.

2. What is the title of the poem which begins, "Center, how you draw yourself out"?
(a) "Music."
(b) "Magic."
(c) "From the Cycle: Nights."
(d) "Force of Gravity."

3. In what year did Rilke write "The Seven Phallic Poems"?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1915.

4. What does Rilke write of "screams of women" in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) In labor.
(b) In heartbreak.
(c) In sorrow.
(d) In regret.

5. What does Rilke write "that rushed along on high and flew with all the stars"?
(a) Childbirth.
(b) Days of wandering.
(c) Kisses of beauty.
(d) Nights of travel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the principle subject of "Blood-Remembering"?

2. What does Rilke write about in conjunction with love and sex in Part VI of "The Seven Phallic Poems"?

3. Mood notes in his introduction to Rilke's poetry that the poet was "in no way an _______, nor in his life."

4. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."

5. From whose point of view does the passage in "Blood-Remembering" come?

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