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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rilke writes in one letter, "Almost everything ______ is difficult, and everything is _______."
(a) Sexual.
(b) Serious.
(c) Love.
(d) Sensual.

2. What does Rilke suggest that the young are apt to do in love?
(a) Stand solitary.
(b) Give oneself away.
(c) Marry for money.
(d) Not listen to each other.

3. In what year did Rilke write "The Seven Phallic Poems"?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1905.

4. In "The Poet Praises," Rilke writes, "Maidens, you warm ones, maidens, you mute and dumb, / dance the taste of the experienced _____!"
(a) Berries.
(b) Jams.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Silence.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?

2. What does the poet say in his untitled poem to do with that which, "offers itself to us with starlight"?

3. What does Rilke write is a simplification of one's way of life?

4. In the introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Love," the commentator states that Rilke's imagery is all what?

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

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