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

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

3. In the second of "The Seven Phallic Poems," who does the poet claim is "drawing my seed up into an abrupt tree"?
(a) Summer.
(b) A maiden.
(c) Love.
(d) A garden.

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

5. In Part III of "The Seven Phallic Poems," Rilke writes, "Granted by you, the image of the ____ stands/at the gentle crossroads under my clothes."
(a) Tower.
(b) Flower.
(c) Madonna.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes in one letter, "Almost everything ______ is difficult, and everything is _______."

2. Which poem begins with the line, "And the last perhaps will not return"?

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

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

5. The commentator concludes the introduction to Rilke's love poetry in saying, "Rilke's poetry is somewhat precious and even _______."

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