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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 what year was Rilke born?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1899.

2. What sculptor had an influence on Rilke's writing?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Rodin.
(c) Da Vinci.
(d) Rogarde.

3. In "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke personifies "Night" as what?
(a) A bird.
(b) A lover.
(c) A river.
(d) A doom.

4. In which poem does Rilke begin, "She who sleeps... To be so very awake, / near pure waking, that we into sleepers grow"?
(a) "Magic."
(b) "Music."
(c) "Greek Love-Talk."
(d) "The Lovers."

5. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?
(a) To stand alone.
(b) To love one another.
(c) To birth a child.
(d) To leave one's love.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part IV of "The Seven Phallic Poems," the poet writes, "You don't know ______, with your diffidence."

2. What does Rilke comment in the excerpt from the Introduction that Eros "cannot be"?

3. Rilke writes in one letter, "Almost everything ______ is difficult, and everything is _______."

4. In the poem, "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke writes, "Night. Oh you in depths ______."

5. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."

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