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

2. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."
(a) Children.
(b) Nature.
(c) Sex.
(d) Love.

3. What does Rilke write is a simplification of one's way of life?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Love.
(d) Sex.

4. What, with absinthe, "trickle through silent sieves of kisses of bitter essence"?
(a) Arsenic.
(b) Lust.
(c) Fairies.
(d) Wormwood.

5. The translator claims that the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" deserve to take their place alongside whose great love poems?
(a) Dante's.
(b) Byron's.
(c) Ovid's.
(d) Shelley's.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. 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"?

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

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