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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. Rilke's letters are examples of what?
(a) Prose.
(b) Irony.
(c) Verse.
(d) Verisimilitude.

2. In "The Poet Praises," Rilke writes, "Maidens, you warm ones, maidens, you mute and dumb, / dance the taste of the experienced _____!"
(a) Fruit.
(b) Berries.
(c) Jams.
(d) Silence.

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

4. What does Rilke suggest that the young are apt to do in love?
(a) Give oneself away.
(b) Marry for money.
(c) Stand solitary.
(d) Not listen to each other.

5. Rilke writes in an untitled poem, "Who keeps innerly _____, touches the roots of speech."
(a) Silent.
(b) Stoic.
(c) Loved.
(d) Remembered.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."

2. What did the commentator originally call the selections of Rilke's letters which he copied and gave out?

3. Rilke is regarded in his letters and his writing to be distinctly ahead of his time in what respect?

4. The commentator concludes the introduction to Rilke's love poetry in saying, "Rilke's poetry is somewhat precious and even _______."

5. In a very short untitled poem, Rilke writes, "The voices warned me so I _____."

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