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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rilke writes, as the first lines of "Blood-Remembering," "Ah! but verses amount to so little when one writes them _____."
(a) Young.
(b) Old.
(c) Blind.
(d) Through dreams.

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

3. What did the commentator originally call the selections of Rilke's letters which he copied and gave out?
(a) "The Love Letters."
(b) "Rilke on Love."
(c) "Letters of Love."
(d) "Notes on Love."

4. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?
(a) The soldier.
(b) The gardener.
(c) The maiden.
(d) The rose-gatherer.

5. 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."
(a) Will.
(b) Strength.
(c) Fortitude.
(d) Patience.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem, "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke writes, "Night. Oh you in depths ______."

2. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."

3. What is the name of the artists' colony in Russian where Rilke was further influenced in his writing?

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

5. Of what does Rilke write "that so strangely began with such a number of profound and grave transformation" in "Blood-Remembering"?

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