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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) Pigtails.
(b) Hairpins.
(c) Lipstick.
(d) Ringlets.

2. Rilke writes of love that "So whoever loves must try to act as if he had a _________."
(a) Holy thing.
(b) Priceless possession.
(c) Fragile jewel.
(d) Great work.

3. In what year did Rilke write the "Woman's Lament" poems?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1935.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What book of Simone de Beauvoir's does the commentator say led him to "militant feminism" in the Introduction to "Rilke's Letters on Love"?

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

3. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?

4. Rilke remarks in his letters that his sex is "not directed only toward posterity" but is is what?

5. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."

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