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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What term describes the following example from "The Seven Phallic Poems"? "Daring landscape, such as an inner-seer/beholds in a crystal ball."
(a) Prose.
(b) Irony.
(c) Simile.
(d) Contrast.

3. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?
(a) The Grapes of Wrath.
(b) Letters to a Young Poet.
(c) Lessons of a Forgotten Soul.
(d) The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

4. Rilke is regarded in his letters and his writing to be distinctly ahead of his time in what respect?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Writing.
(c) Religion.
(d) Politics.

5. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?
(a) Beginning.
(b) Failing.
(c) Ending.
(d) Trying.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The commentator remarks in the Introduction, "It should be emphasized that Rilke's language is thoroughly _______."

3. What does Rilke write in his first letter, imploring the reader to try to love?

4. The translator claims that the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" deserve to take their place alongside whose great love poems?

5. In the seventh of "The Seven Phallic Poems," what does the poet write that his "semen climbs gladly like"?

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