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

2. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?
(a) The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
(b) Lessons of a Forgotten Soul.
(c) Letters to a Young Poet.
(d) The Grapes of Wrath.

3. What does the translator comment in the Prologue that his translations of Rilke are?
(a) Eloquent.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Exact.
(d) Inadequate.

4. 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) Letters to a Young Poet.
(b) The Feminist Manifesto.
(c) The Second Sex.
(d) The Woman's Life.

5. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?
(a) German.
(b) Austrian.
(c) Bohemian.
(d) French.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In the last of the untitled love poems, the poet writes, "Do you feel, distant dear miss, / since you are _______ me."

4. In what year was Rilke born?

5. Rilke's letters are examples of what?

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