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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 the commentator say was Rilke's mode of exploration during "the long periods between his well-known great creative bursts of energy"?
(a) Letter-writing.
(b) Sculpting.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Painting.

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

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

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

5. What does Rilke write in Part V of "The Seven Phallic Poems" has "weakened you and me"?
(a) Too ample space.
(b) Too great a distance.
(c) Too strong a love.
(d) Too strong an adversary.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term describes the following example from "The Seven Phallic Poems"? "Daring landscape, such as an inner-seer/beholds in a crystal ball."

3. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?

4. The first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?

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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