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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."
(a) Ballerina.
(b) Sparrow.
(c) Nightingale.
(d) Butterfly.

2. 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) Painting.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Letter-writing.
(d) Sculpting.

3. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."
(a) Silence.
(b) Kiss.
(c) Phalli.
(d) Woman.

4. In the seventh of "The Seven Phallic Poems," what does the poet write that his "semen climbs gladly like"?
(a) A child.
(b) A god.
(c) A tower.
(d) A tree.

5. 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) The Woman's Life.
(d) Letters to a Young Poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Rilke write "The Seven Phallic Poems"?

2. In the excerpt of Rilke's letter in the Introduction, what essay does he refer to reading?

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

4. In the second of "The Seven Phallic Poems," who does the poet claim is "drawing my seed up into an abrupt tree"?

5. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?

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