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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rilke writes in one letter, "Almost everything ______ is difficult, and everything is _______."
(a) Sexual.
(b) Love.
(c) Serious.
(d) Sensual.

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

3. In introducing Rilke's love poetry, the commentator notes that the poet's sexual and sensual undertones are mostly overlooked because of the striking impact of what?
(a) His spirituality.
(b) His uncommon rhythms.
(c) His surreal approach.
(d) His flowery language.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke write is a simplification of one's way of life?

2. In one untitled love poem, Rilke writes, "Drinking would seem too much, too ____, to me"?

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

4. In one of the untitled love poems, Rilke writes, "What fields are fragrant as your ______?"

5. In what year did Rilke write the "Woman's Lament" poems?

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