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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. The poem "Gong" makes use of what literary technique?
(a) Segmentation.
(b) Absurdism.
(c) Onomatapeia.
(d) Irony.

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

3. Mood notes in his introduction to Rilke's poetry that the poet was "in no way an _______, nor in his life."
(a) Aesthete.
(b) Artist.
(c) Actor.
(d) Amateur.

4. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?
(a) Austrian.
(b) German.
(c) Bohemian.
(d) French.

5. In a very short untitled poem, Rilke writes, "The voices warned me so I _____."
(a) Wept.
(b) Ran.
(c) Ceased.
(d) Desisted.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties," the poet writes, "Give me, oh earth, pure _____ / clay for the jug of tears."

2. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?

3. Rilke writes in one letter, "Almost everything ______ is difficult, and everything is _______."

4. In "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes in one poem from 1924, "We are not to know why / this and that _____ us."

5. Rilke is regarded in his letters and his writing to be distinctly ahead of his time in what respect?

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