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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 Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."
(a) Woman.
(b) Silence.
(c) Phalli.
(d) Kiss.

2. This first poem in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" is titled what?
(a) "The Poet Speaks of Praising."
(b) "The Poems Praise."
(c) "The Cycle of Night."
(d) "The Poet Praises."

3. The first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?
(a) "The Seven Phallic Poems."
(b) "Poems to Orpheus."
(c) "Rites to Passage."
(d) "Duino Elegies."

4. When did Rilke undertake "the great giving"?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1915.

5. One of the shortest of the love poems consists of the following two lines: "Also to affirm even ______ / like a thing."
(a) Woman.
(b) Rapture.
(c) Love.
(d) Lust.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the excerpt of Rilke's letter in the Introduction, what essay does he refer to reading?

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

3. Who does Rilke say is incapable of such loving as he calls for?

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

5. In the last of the untitled love poems, the poet writes, "Do you feel, distant dear miss, / since you are _______ me."

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