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

2. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."
(a) Nightingale.
(b) Ballerina.
(c) Sparrow.
(d) Butterfly.

3. In "Gravity," Rilke writes, "Yet from the _____ falls, / as from a stored up cloud, / abundant rain of force."
(a) Weeper.
(b) Sleeper.
(c) Lover.
(d) Dreamer.

4. Which poem begins with the line, "And the last perhaps will not return"?
(a) "Woman's Lament II."
(b) "The Lovers."
(c) "Greek Love-Talk."
(d) "Woman's Lament I."

5. What does the commentator say was Rilke's mode of exploration during "the long periods between his well-known great creative bursts of energy"?
(a) Sculpting.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Painting.
(d) Letter-writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Mood writes that Rilke "began as a bit of a sticky late ______."

2. The commentator remarks in the Introduction, "It should be emphasized that Rilke's language is thoroughly _______."

3. In the seventh of "The Seven Phallic Poems," what does the poet write that his "semen climbs gladly like"?

4. Which poem begins, "See how in their veins all becomes spirit"?

5. In "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke personifies "Night" as what?

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