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

2. What does Rilke comment in the excerpt from the Introduction that Eros "cannot be"?
(a) Ugly.
(b) Faithful.
(c) Joyful.
(d) Fair.

3. Rilke writes in one letter, "At bottom ______ can help anyone else in life."
(a) Everyone.
(b) Men.
(c) Women.
(d) No one.

4. In "The Poet Praises," Rilke writes, "Maidens, you warm ones, maidens, you mute and dumb, / dance the taste of the experienced _____!"
(a) Fruit.
(b) Jams.
(c) Berries.
(d) Silence.

5. Who does Rilke say is incapable of such loving as he calls for?
(a) Women.
(b) Virgins.
(c) Religious people.
(d) Young people.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one of the untitled love poems, Rilke writes, "What fields are fragrant as your ______?"

2. Rilke writes in his letters, "Why have they made our sex _______, instead of making it the place for the festival of our competency?"

3. In Part III of "The Seven Phallic Poems," Rilke writes, "Granted by you, the image of the ____ stands/at the gentle crossroads under my clothes."

4. One poem, using nature imagery, reads, "Cheerful gift from the chillier / mountains / attempts to leap into ____."

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

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