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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 did Rilke write the "Woman's Lament" poems?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1925.

2. What is the principle subject of "Blood-Remembering"?
(a) Painting.
(b) Love.
(c) Writing.
(d) Sculpting.

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

4. Rilke writes in one letter, "At bottom ______ can help anyone else in life."
(a) Men.
(b) No one.
(c) Women.
(d) Everyone.

5. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."
(a) Woman.
(b) Silence.
(c) Phalli.
(d) Kiss.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes of love that "So whoever loves must try to act as if he had a _________."

2. Who does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?

3. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?

4. In one untitled poem of "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Play the ____, the single ones, quickly and you..."

5. 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"?

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