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

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

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

4. Rilke writes in "The Seven Phallic Poems," "We close ______ by means of our gazes."
(a) Our lips.
(b) A circle.
(c) Our blankets.
(d) The night.

5. Mood notes in his introduction to Rilke's poetry that the poet was "in no way an _______, nor in his life."
(a) Actor.
(b) Aesthete.
(c) Artist.
(d) Amateur.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."

2. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?

3. In what year did Rilke write "The Seven Phallic Poems"?

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. Rilke's letters are examples of what?

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