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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems on Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The commentator concludes the introduction to Rilke's love poetry in saying, "Rilke's poetry is somewhat precious and even _______."
(a) Effiminate.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Ephemeral.

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

3. Who does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Norman Mailer.
(d) Fitzgerald.

4. The first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?
(a) "The Seven Phallic Poems."
(b) "Duino Elegies."
(c) "Poems to Orpheus."
(d) "Rites to Passage."

5. In Part IV of "The Seven Phallic Poems," the poet writes, "You don't know ______, with your diffidence."
(a) Sex.
(b) Towers.
(c) Love.
(d) Gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the excerpt of Rilke's letter in the Introduction, what essay does he refer to reading?

2. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."

3. What does the commentator say was Rilke's mode of exploration during "the long periods between his well-known great creative bursts of energy"?

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

5. What literary term applies to the following: "exhaust yourself like a spring"?

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