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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the last of the untitled love poems, the poet writes, "Do you feel, distant dear miss, / since you are _______ me."
(a) Loving.
(b) Caressing.
(c) Kissing.
(d) Reading.

2. Rilke writes in one untitled poem, "Like the _____ of quickly grown-up girls / one braids differently."
(a) Hairpins.
(b) Pigtails.
(c) Ringlets.
(d) Lipstick.

3. What book of Simone de Beauvoir's does the commentator say led him to "militant feminism" in the Introduction to "Rilke's Letters on Love"?
(a) Letters to a Young Poet.
(b) The Woman's Life.
(c) The Feminist Manifesto.
(d) The Second Sex.

4. 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."
(a) Beauty.
(b) Misery.
(c) Heartbreak.
(d) Feeling.

5. This first poem in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" is titled what?
(a) "The Poems Praise."
(b) "The Poet Speaks of Praising."
(c) "The Poet Praises."
(d) "The Cycle of Night."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. One poem, using nature imagery, reads, "Cheerful gift from the chillier / mountains / attempts to leap into ____."

4. Two-thirds of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" come from what year?

5. In "The Poet Praises," Rilke writes, "Maidens, you warm ones, maidens, you mute and dumb, / dance the taste of the experienced _____!"

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