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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the commentator say was Rilke's mode of exploration during "the long periods between his well-known great creative bursts of energy"?
(a) Letter-writing.
(b) Painting.
(c) Sculpting.
(d) Teaching.

2. What does Rilke write is a simplification of one's way of life?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Sex.
(d) Love.

3. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."
(a) Love.
(b) Children.
(c) Nature.
(d) Sex.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?

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

3. Rilke writes in his letters, "Why have they made our sex _______, instead of making it the place for the festival of our competency?"

4. Rilke is regarded in his letters and his writing to be distinctly ahead of his time in what respect?

5. Rilke remarks in his letters that his sex is "not directed only toward posterity" but is is what?

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