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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 Part III of "The Seven Phallic Poems," Rilke writes, "Granted by you, the image of the ____ stands/at the gentle crossroads under my clothes."
(a) Flower.
(b) Tower.
(c) God.
(d) Madonna.

2. In a very short untitled poem, Rilke writes, "The voices warned me so I _____."
(a) Desisted.
(b) Ceased.
(c) Wept.
(d) Ran.

3. Rilke writes in "The Seven Phallic Poems," "We close ______ by means of our gazes."
(a) The night.
(b) A circle.
(c) Our blankets.
(d) Our lips.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Rilke write "The Seven Phallic Poems"?

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

3. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."

4. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."

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

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