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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) James Joyce.

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

3. In what year did Rilke write the "Woman's Lament" poems?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1935.

4. Rilke writes in an untitled poem, "Who keeps innerly _____, touches the roots of speech."
(a) Remembered.
(b) Loved.
(c) Silent.
(d) Stoic.

5. In what poem does Rilke write "Life and death: they are one, at core intertwined"?
(a) "The Poet Praises."
(b) "The Poems Praise."
(c) "Woman's Lament II."
(d) "The Poet Speaks of Praising."

Short Answer Questions

1. This first poem in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" is titled what?

2. Of what fruit does Rilke write of in "The Poet Praises"?

3. The commentator concludes the introduction to Rilke's love poetry in saying, "Rilke's poetry is somewhat precious and even _______."

4. Rilke's letters are examples of what?

5. In "The Poet Praises," Rilke writes, "Maidens, you warm ones, maidens, you mute and dumb, / dance the taste of the experienced _____!"

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