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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. The translator claims that the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" deserve to take their place alongside whose great love poems?
(a) Shelley's.
(b) Byron's.
(c) Dante's.
(d) Ovid's.

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

3. In what year was Rilke born?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1899.

4. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?
(a) Beginning.
(b) Failing.
(c) Trying.
(d) Ending.

5. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?
(a) French.
(b) German.
(c) Austrian.
(d) Bohemian.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?

5. In the introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Love," the commentator states that Rilke's imagery is all what?

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