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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The commentator notes that all of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" were written when he was how old?
(a) His forties and fifties.
(b) His twenties.
(c) His thirties and forties.
(d) His fifties.

2. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?
(a) To leave one's love.
(b) To birth a child.
(c) To love one another.
(d) To stand alone.

3. In the last of the untitled love poems, the poet writes, "Do you feel, distant dear miss, / since you are _______ me."
(a) Reading.
(b) Loving.
(c) Kissing.
(d) Caressing.

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

5. In one untitled love poem, Rilke writes, "Drinking would seem too much, too ____, to me"?
(a) Lustful.
(b) Loving.
(c) Plain.
(d) Overwhelming.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which poem begins, "See how in their veins all becomes spirit"?

2. One of the shortest of the love poems consists of the following two lines: "Also to affirm even ______ / like a thing."

3. Rilke's letters are examples of what?

4. Which poem begins with the line, "And the last perhaps will not return"?

5. What literary term applies to the following: "exhaust yourself like a spring"?

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