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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke : Chapter 6, Uncollected Poems.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Requiem for a Friend," which of the following is left unclear?
(a) The narrative character's gender.
(b) The narrative character's friend's name.
(c) The feelings of the narrator for the person who died.
(d) The narrator's thoughts on traveling.

2. In the poem about the gazelle, which of the following is included?
(a) An epithet.
(b) A couplet.
(c) A sonnet.
(d) An elegy.

3. Which of the following is the name of one of Rilke's poems?
(a) "Apollo. Hermes. Eurydice."
(b) "Saint. Hermes. Alcestis."
(c) "Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes."
(d) "Orpheus. Alcestis. Apollo."

4. Which of the following is a line from the poem "To Holderlin"?
(a) We are not permitted to linger.
(b) We must endure trial and tribulation.
(c) We are not permitted to be intimate.
(d) We are allowed to be together for but a minute

5. What follows from "I have my dead"?
(a) And I let them live.
(b) And I want to die.
(c) And I have let them go.
(d) And I keep them close.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator willing to look in the face in "Requiem for a Friend"?

2. What is a result of the discrepancy in translation in "I am the Anxious One"?

3. What is the new element introduced in "Requiem for a Friend"?

4. In the poem about faces, what do vast numbers of things appear to be?

5. What does the swan symbolize?

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