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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. Which poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties" speaks of a king?
(a) "Mausoleum."
(b) "Magic."
(c) "Greek Love-Talk."
(d) "Gong."

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

3. What does Rilke write about in conjunction with love and sex in Part VI of "The Seven Phallic Poems"?
(a) Worry.
(b) Death.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Redemption.

4. Rilke writes in his letters, "Why have they made our sex _______, instead of making it the place for the festival of our competency?"
(a) Carefree.
(b) Homeless.
(c) Loving.
(d) Dangerous.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What term describes the following example from "The Seven Phallic Poems"? "Daring landscape, such as an inner-seer/beholds in a crystal ball."

4. In "The Poet Praises," Rilke writes, "Maidens, you warm ones, maidens, you mute and dumb, / dance the taste of the experienced _____!"

5. In an untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Great star of love's priestesses, which _____ kindles from its own right."

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