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

2. What is the name of the artists' colony in Russian where Rilke was further influenced in his writing?
(a) Schnizwald.
(b) Worpswede.
(c) Round Table.
(d) Avondale.

3. What does Rilke accuse of vilifying sensuality and love?
(a) Mankind.
(b) Christianity.
(c) The government.
(d) Womankind.

4. In the seventh of "The Seven Phallic Poems," what does the poet write that his "semen climbs gladly like"?
(a) A god.
(b) A tower.
(c) A tree.
(d) A child.

5. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."
(a) Sparrow.
(b) Nightingale.
(c) Butterfly.
(d) Ballerina.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke write in his first letter, imploring the reader to try to love?

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

3. Whose influence helped to expand Rilke's vision, according to Mood?

4. What does Rilke suggest that the young are apt to do in love?

5. What does the poet say in his untitled poem to do with that which, "offers itself to us with starlight"?

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