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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rilke writes in one untitled poem, "Like the _____ of quickly grown-up girls / one braids differently."
(a) Hairpins.
(b) Lipstick.
(c) Pigtails.
(d) Ringlets.

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

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) Amateur.
(c) Artist.
(d) Actor.

4. The commentator remarks in the Introduction, "It should be emphasized that Rilke's language is thoroughly _______."
(a) Dramatic.
(b) Sensual.
(c) Explicit.
(d) Narrow.

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) Letter-writing.
(d) Painting.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Rilke write "The Seven Phallic Poems"?

2. Rilke writes in his letters, "Why have they made our sex _______, instead of making it the place for the festival of our competency?"

3. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?

4. In the excerpt of Rilke's letter in the Introduction, what essay does he refer to reading?

5. Who is one of the earliest figures of feminism who was friends with Rilke?

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