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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) 1800.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1875.

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

3. In an untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Great star of love's priestesses, which _____ kindles from its own right."
(a) Misery.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Heartbreak.
(d) Feeling.

4. What does Rilke write in his first letter, imploring the reader to try to love?
(a) Dignity.
(b) The answers.
(c) The questions themselves.
(d) The truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes in one untitled poem, "Like the _____ of quickly grown-up girls / one braids differently."

2. What is the name of the artists' colony in Russian where Rilke was further influenced in his writing?

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

4. In the Introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Mood writes that Rilke "began as a bit of a sticky late ______."

5. What does Rilke write about in conjunction with love and sex in Part VI of "The Seven Phallic Poems"?

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