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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems on Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part III of "The Seven Phallic Poems," Rilke writes, "Granted by you, the image of the ____ stands/at the gentle crossroads under my clothes."
(a) Madonna.
(b) God.
(c) Tower.
(d) Flower.

2. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?
(a) The soldier.
(b) The rose-gatherer.
(c) The gardener.
(d) The maiden.

3. What does Rilke write in Part V of "The Seven Phallic Poems" has "weakened you and me"?
(a) Too ample space.
(b) Too strong an adversary.
(c) Too strong a love.
(d) Too great a distance.

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

5. Rilke writes in one letter, "At bottom ______ can help anyone else in life."
(a) Men.
(b) Everyone.
(c) Women.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes of love that "So whoever loves must try to act as if he had a _________."

2. In what year did Rilke write the "Woman's Lament" poems?

3. In the last of the untitled love poems, the poet writes, "Do you feel, distant dear miss, / since you are _______ me."

4. What did the commentator originally call the selections of Rilke's letters which he copied and gave out?

5. In the second of "The Seven Phallic Poems," who does the poet claim is "drawing my seed up into an abrupt tree"?

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