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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary term applies to the following: "exhaust yourself like a spring"?
(a) Irony.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Simile.

2. What does Rilke write that verses are in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Experiences.
(c) Memories.
(d) Love.

3. Which poem begins, "See how in their veins all becomes spirit"?
(a) "The Seven Phallic Poems."
(b) "The Lovers."
(c) "Woman's Lament I."
(d) "Greek Love-Talk."

4. What does Rilke write that one ought to wait and gather "a whole life long," in "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Memory and truth.
(b) Age and memory.
(c) Experience and memory.
(d) Sense and sweetness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, with absinthe, "trickle through silent sieves of kisses of bitter essence"?

2. In the second of "The Seven Phallic Poems," who does the poet claim is "drawing my seed up into an abrupt tree"?

3. In the Introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Mood writes that Rilke "began as a bit of a sticky late ______."

4. In "Blood-Remembering," from what comes poetry?

5. In Part III of "The Seven Phallic Poems," Rilke writes, "Granted by you, the image of the ____ stands/at the gentle crossroads under my clothes."

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