Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties, Translations and Considerations of Rainer Maria Rilke Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties, Translations and Considerations of Rainer Maria Rilke Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dragon-Princess.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This first poem in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" is titled what?
(a) "The Poet Praises."
(b) "The Poems Praise."
(c) "The Poet Speaks of Praising."
(d) "The Cycle of Night."

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

3. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," He would think himself falling or hurled _________, or exploded into a thousand pieces."
(a) Into the ocean.
(b) Onto the moon.
(c) Across the universe.
(d) Out into space.

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

5. Where does Rilke suggest a person might be removed from his room and placed, in discussing a metaphor for solitude?
(a) A great mountain.
(b) A vast desert.
(c) A spider web.
(d) An endless sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what fruit does Rilke write of in "The Poet Praises"?

2. Rilke says in "The Dragon-Princess," that "the experiences called 'visions,' the whole so-called 'spirit world'," etc. has been so crowded out of life that the "sense we could have grasped them with has" done what?

3. In "Blood-Remembering," Rilke writes "One must be able to think back to roads in ________."

4. What is the title of the poem which begins, "Center, how you draw yourself out"?

5. One of the shortest of the love poems consists of the following two lines: "Also to affirm even ______ / like a thing."

(see the answer key)

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