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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. What does Rilke write about in conjunction with love and sex in Part VI of "The Seven Phallic Poems"?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Death.
(c) Worry.
(d) Guilt.

2. What does Rilke write in his first letter, imploring the reader to try to love?
(a) The questions themselves.
(b) The answers.
(c) The truth.
(d) Dignity.

3. Two-thirds of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" come from what year?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1924.

4. What, with absinthe, "trickle through silent sieves of kisses of bitter essence"?
(a) Lust.
(b) Wormwood.
(c) Arsenic.
(d) Fairies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In one untitled love poem, Rilke writes, "Drinking would seem too much, too ____, to me"?

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

3. In "Gravity," Rilke writes, "Yet from the _____ falls, / as from a stored up cloud, / abundant rain of force."

4. In what amount of time did Rilke write over 1,600 lines of poetry plus a major essay during "the great giving"?

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

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