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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 the Prologue, who does the commentator say is the other of the two greatest writers of the twentieth century?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) James Joyce.

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

3. Rilke writes in one letter, "Almost everything ______ is difficult, and everything is _______."
(a) Sexual.
(b) Serious.
(c) Love.
(d) Sensual.

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

5. The first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?
(a) "Duino Elegies."
(b) "Poems to Orpheus."
(c) "Rites to Passage."
(d) "The Seven Phallic Poems."

Short Answer Questions

1. The commentator regards that Rilke's "justly famed deep spirituality" is rooted essentially in what?

2. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?

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

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

5. What does Rilke write in Part V of "The Seven Phallic Poems" has "weakened you and me"?

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