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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the shortest of the love poems consists of the following two lines: "Also to affirm even ______ / like a thing."
(a) Love.
(b) Woman.
(c) Rapture.
(d) Lust.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which poem begins, "See how in their veins all becomes spirit"?

3. The commentator remarks in the Introduction, "It should be emphasized that Rilke's language is thoroughly _______."

4. What does the translator comment in the Prologue that his translations of Rilke are?

5. What does Rilke write that he holds to be "the highest task of a bond between two people"?

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