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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The commentator regards that Rilke's "justly famed deep spirituality" is rooted essentially in what?
(a) God.
(b) Sex.
(c) Nature.
(d) Heaven.

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

3. What does Rilke suggest that the young are apt to do in love?
(a) Give oneself away.
(b) Not listen to each other.
(c) Stand solitary.
(d) Marry for money.

4. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that one must feel what?
(a) How the lights shine.
(b) How the sheep sigh.
(c) How the birds fly.
(d) How the women weep.

5. Writing of one of his principle motifs, the poet writes, "Transform stamen on stamen, / fill your interior _____."
(a) Death.
(b) Rose.
(c) Pitcher.
(d) Heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. In an untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Great star of love's priestesses, which _____ kindles from its own right."

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

3. What does Rilke write that one ought to wait and gather "a whole life long," in "Blood-Remembering"?

4. Which poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties" speaks of a king?

5. Rilke writes in "Blood-Remembering" that "verses are not, as people imagine," what?

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