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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's letters are examples of what?
(a) Prose.
(b) Irony.
(c) Verse.
(d) Verisimilitude.

2. What literary term applies to the following: "exhaust yourself like a spring"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Irony.
(c) Simile.
(d) Alliteration.

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

4. The first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?
(a) "Duino Elegies."
(b) "Poems to Orpheus."
(c) "The Seven Phallic Poems."
(d) "Rites to Passage."

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

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"?

3. Who does Rilke say is incapable of such loving as he calls for?

4. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."

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

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