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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. Who does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Norman Mailer.
(c) Fitzgerald.
(d) Robert Frost.

2. Who does Rilke say is incapable of such loving as he calls for?
(a) Young people.
(b) Virgins.
(c) Women.
(d) Religious people.

3. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?
(a) Letters to a Young Poet.
(b) Lessons of a Forgotten Soul.
(c) The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
(d) The Grapes of Wrath.

4. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."
(a) Sex.
(b) Children.
(c) Love.
(d) Nature.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In one of the untitled love poems, Rilke writes, "What fields are fragrant as your ______?"

3. Rilke writes of love that "So whoever loves must try to act as if he had a _________."

4. From what collection is "The Poet Praises" taken?

5. Rilke writes in one letter, "Almost everything ______ is difficult, and everything is _______."

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