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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?
(a) Fitzgerald.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Norman Mailer.

2. What does Rilke suggest that the young are apt to do in love?
(a) Marry for money.
(b) Not listen to each other.
(c) Stand solitary.
(d) Give oneself away.

3. What does Rilke accuse of vilifying sensuality and love?
(a) The government.
(b) Womankind.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Mankind.

4. In what year was Rilke born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1800.

5. Which poem begins, "See how in their veins all becomes spirit"?
(a) "Woman's Lament I."
(b) "Greek Love-Talk."
(c) "The Lovers."
(d) "The Seven Phallic Poems."

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part IV of "The Seven Phallic Poems," the poet writes, "You don't know ______, with your diffidence."

2. What does the translator comment in the Prologue that his translations of Rilke are?

3. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?

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

5. Rilke's letters are examples of what?

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