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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rilke write in Part V of "The Seven Phallic Poems" has "weakened you and me"?
(a) Too strong a love.
(b) Too great a distance.
(c) Too strong an adversary.
(d) Too ample space.

2. From what novel is the excerpt "Blood-Remembering" taken?
(a) Into the Looking Glass.
(b) The Duino Elegies.
(c) Letters to a Young Poet.
(d) The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

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

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

5. What sculptor had an influence on Rilke's writing?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Da Vinci.
(c) Rogarde.
(d) Rodin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In one of the untitled love poems, Rilke writes, "What fields are fragrant as your ______?"

3. The poem "Gong" makes use of what literary technique?

4. In one untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties," the poet writes, "Give me, oh earth, pure _____ / clay for the jug of tears."

5. What of the sea does Rilke write of remembering in "Blood-Remembering"?

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