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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 thirties and forties.
(b) His forties and fifties.
(c) His fifties.
(d) His twenties.

2. Which poem begins with the line, "And the last perhaps will not return"?
(a) "Woman's Lament II."
(b) "The Lovers."
(c) "Woman's Lament I."
(d) "Greek Love-Talk."

3. What book of Simone de Beauvoir's does the commentator say led him to "militant feminism" in the Introduction to "Rilke's Letters on Love"?
(a) The Feminist Manifesto.
(b) The Second Sex.
(c) Letters to a Young Poet.
(d) The Woman's Life.

4. Rilke writes in one letter, "At bottom ______ can help anyone else in life."
(a) Men.
(b) Everyone.
(c) Women.
(d) No one.

5. In the introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Love," the commentator states that Rilke's imagery is all what?
(a) Surreal.
(b) Unnatural.
(c) Earthly.
(d) Heavenly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Over what does the poet write, "we will together contend" in "Greek Love-Talk"?

3. What does Rilke comment in the excerpt from the Introduction that Eros "cannot be"?

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

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

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