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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 Part IV of "The Seven Phallic Poems," the poet writes, "You don't know ______, with your diffidence."
(a) Gods.
(b) Towers.
(c) Love.
(d) Sex.

2. In the seventh of "The Seven Phallic Poems," what does the poet write that his "semen climbs gladly like"?
(a) A tower.
(b) A god.
(c) A child.
(d) A tree.

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

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

5. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?
(a) Austrian.
(b) German.
(c) Bohemian.
(d) French.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?

2. The commentator regards that Rilke's "justly famed deep spirituality" is rooted essentially in what?

3. In Part III of "The Seven Phallic Poems," Rilke writes, "Granted by you, the image of the ____ stands/at the gentle crossroads under my clothes."

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

5. Which poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties" speaks of a king?

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