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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. Over what does the poet write, "we will together contend" in "Greek Love-Talk"?
(a) This war.
(b) Our love.
(c) Your breasts.
(d) The forest.

2. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?
(a) The maiden.
(b) The soldier.
(c) The rose-gatherer.
(d) The gardener.

3. The commentator notes that all of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" were written when he was how old?
(a) His twenties.
(b) His forties and fifties.
(c) His fifties.
(d) His thirties and forties.

4. In what poem does Rilke write "Life and death: they are one, at core intertwined"?
(a) "Woman's Lament II."
(b) "The Poet Speaks of Praising."
(c) "The Poems Praise."
(d) "The Poet Praises."

5. What does Rilke write is a simplification of one's way of life?
(a) Sex.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Love.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke personifies "Night" as what?

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. This first poem in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" is titled what?

4. What literary term applies to the following: "exhaust yourself like a spring"?

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

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