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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Prologue, who does the commentator say is the other of the two greatest writers of the twentieth century?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

2. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."
(a) Woman.
(b) Phalli.
(c) Silence.
(d) Kiss.

3. 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) Madonna.
(b) God.
(c) Tower.
(d) Flower.

4. 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) Painting.
(b) Letter-writing.
(c) Sculpting.
(d) Teaching.

5. In the excerpt of Rilke's letter in the Introduction, what essay does he refer to reading?
(a) Plato's Symposium.
(b) Cicero's Symposium.
(c) Platos' Cave.
(d) Homer's Odyssey.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?

3. Rilke writes in one letter, "At bottom ______ can help anyone else in life."

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

5. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."

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