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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 the excerpt of Rilke's letter in the Introduction, what essay does he refer to reading?
(a) Plato's Symposium.
(b) Homer's Odyssey.
(c) Platos' Cave.
(d) Cicero's Symposium.

2. In one of the untitled love poems, Rilke writes, "What fields are fragrant as your ______?"
(a) Eyes.
(b) Lips.
(c) Hands.
(d) Kiss.

3. In Part III of "The Seven Phallic Poems," Rilke writes, "Granted by you, the image of the ____ stands/at the gentle crossroads under my clothes."
(a) God.
(b) Flower.
(c) Madonna.
(d) Tower.

4. 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 fifties.
(c) His twenties.
(d) His forties and fifties.

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

Short Answer 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."

2. What did the commentator originally call the selections of Rilke's letters which he copied and gave out?

3. What does the commentator say was Rilke's mode of exploration during "the long periods between his well-known great creative bursts of energy"?

4. Who does Rilke say is incapable of such loving as he calls for?

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

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