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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which poem begins with the line, "And the last perhaps will not return"?
(a) "The Lovers."
(b) "Woman's Lament II."
(c) "Greek Love-Talk."
(d) "Woman's Lament I."

2. Rilke writes in "The Seven Phallic Poems," "We close ______ by means of our gazes."
(a) The night.
(b) A circle.
(c) Our blankets.
(d) Our lips.

3. Rilke writes in his letters, "Why have they made our sex _______, instead of making it the place for the festival of our competency?"
(a) Carefree.
(b) Loving.
(c) Homeless.
(d) Dangerous.

4. What does Rilke write that he holds to be "the highest task of a bond between two people"?
(a) That they should each stand guard over the solitude of the other.
(b) That they should stand alone.
(c) That they should hold no limits to their connection.
(d) That they must live closely.

5. In one untitled poem of "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Play the ____, the single ones, quickly and you..."
(a) Kisses.
(b) Loves.
(c) Harps.
(d) Deaths.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. 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."

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

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