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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 regards that Rilke's "justly famed deep spirituality" is rooted essentially in what?
(a) Sex.
(b) God.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Nature.

2. In what year did Rilke write "The Seven Phallic Poems"?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1925.

3. The translator claims that the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" deserve to take their place alongside whose great love poems?
(a) Byron's.
(b) Shelley's.
(c) Dante's.
(d) Ovid's.

4. Rilke is regarded in his letters and his writing to be distinctly ahead of his time in what respect?
(a) Politics.
(b) Writing.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Religion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes in one letter, "Almost everything ______ is difficult, and everything is _______."

2. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."

3. Who does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?

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

5. Rilke writes in one untitled poem, "Like the _____ of quickly grown-up girls / one braids differently."

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