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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. Writing of one of his principle motifs, the poet writes, "Transform stamen on stamen, / fill your interior _____."
(a) Heart.
(b) Rose.
(c) Pitcher.
(d) Death.

2. One poem, using nature imagery, reads, "Cheerful gift from the chillier / mountains / attempts to leap into ____."
(a) June.
(b) August.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

3. In one untitled love poem, Rilke writes, "Drinking would seem too much, too ____, to me"?
(a) Loving.
(b) Plain.
(c) Overwhelming.
(d) Lustful.

4. Over what does the poet write, "we will together contend" in "Greek Love-Talk"?
(a) Your breasts.
(b) Our love.
(c) The forest.
(d) This war.

5. Who is one of the earliest figures of feminism who was friends with Rilke?
(a) Ellen Page.
(b) Victoria Ellison.
(c) Ellen Kay.
(d) Sarah Albright.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes in one poem from 1924, "We are not to know why / this and that _____ us."

3. What does the commentator say was Rilke's mode of exploration during "the long periods between his well-known great creative bursts of energy"?

4. Rilke remarks in his letters that his sex is "not directed only toward posterity" but is is what?

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

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