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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) Contrast.
(b) Irony.
(c) Simile.
(d) Prose.

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 did the commentator originally call the selections of Rilke's letters which he copied and gave out?
(a) "Notes on Love."
(b) "Letters of Love."
(c) "Rilke on Love."
(d) "The Love Letters."

4. In introducing Rilke's love poetry, the commentator notes that the poet's sexual and sensual undertones are mostly overlooked because of the striking impact of what?
(a) His surreal approach.
(b) His flowery language.
(c) His uncommon rhythms.
(d) His spirituality.

5. In what year was Rilke born?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one of the earliest figures of feminism who was friends with Rilke?

2. Rilke's letters are examples of what?

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

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"?

5. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?

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