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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Rilke born?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1899.

2. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."
(a) Nightingale.
(b) Butterfly.
(c) Ballerina.
(d) Sparrow.

3. Whose influence helped to expand Rilke's vision, according to Mood?
(a) Donne.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Nietzsche.

4. For the sake of what, much one see many cities, men and things, etc.?
(a) A song.
(b) A poem.
(c) A novel.
(d) A single verse.

5. What term describes the following example from "The Seven Phallic Poems"? "Daring landscape, such as an inner-seer/beholds in a crystal ball."
(a) Irony.
(b) Contrast.
(c) Prose.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Rilke writes in his letters, "Why have they made our sex _______, instead of making it the place for the festival of our competency?"

3. What does Rilke accuse of vilifying sensuality and love?

4. The commentator concludes the introduction to Rilke's love poetry in saying, "Rilke's poetry is somewhat precious and even _______."

5. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?

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