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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. What term describes the following example from "The Seven Phallic Poems"? "Daring landscape, such as an inner-seer/beholds in a crystal ball."
(a) Simile.
(b) Irony.
(c) Contrast.
(d) Prose.

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

3. In the last of the untitled love poems, the poet writes, "Do you feel, distant dear miss, / since you are _______ me."
(a) Loving.
(b) Caressing.
(c) Kissing.
(d) Reading.

4. What, with absinthe, "trickle through silent sieves of kisses of bitter essence"?
(a) Arsenic.
(b) Wormwood.
(c) Fairies.
(d) Lust.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the excerpt of Rilke's letter in the Introduction, what essay does he refer to reading?

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

3. Rilke is regarded in his letters and his writing to be distinctly ahead of his time in what respect?

4. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?

5. Which poem begins with the line, "And the last perhaps will not return"?

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