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

2. Rilke writes in "The Seven Phallic Poems," "We close ______ by means of our gazes."
(a) A circle.
(b) Our lips.
(c) The night.
(d) Our blankets.

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

4. The poem "Gong" makes use of what literary technique?
(a) Segmentation.
(b) Irony.
(c) Onomatapeia.
(d) Absurdism.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In the poem, "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke writes, "Night. Oh you in depths ______."

5. What does Rilke write that he holds to be "the highest task of a bond between two people"?

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