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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 is one of the earliest figures of feminism who was friends with Rilke?
(a) Ellen Page.
(b) Sarah Albright.
(c) Ellen Kay.
(d) Victoria Ellison.

2. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?
(a) The maiden.
(b) The soldier.
(c) The gardener.
(d) The rose-gatherer.

3. Who does Rilke say is incapable of such loving as he calls for?
(a) Virgins.
(b) Women.
(c) Religious people.
(d) Young people.

4. What does Rilke comment in the excerpt from the Introduction that Eros "cannot be"?
(a) Faithful.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Fair.
(d) Joyful.

5. Rilke's letters are examples of what?
(a) Verse.
(b) Irony.
(c) Verisimilitude.
(d) Prose.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one untitled love poem, Rilke writes, "Drinking would seem too much, too ____, to me"?

2. In what year was Rilke born?

3. Rilke writes in his letters, "Why have they made our sex _______, instead of making it the place for the festival of our competency?"

4. 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."

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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