View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems on Other Difficulties.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which poem begins, "See how in their veins all becomes spirit"?
(a) "Woman's Lament I."
(b) "The Lovers."
(c) "Greek Love-Talk."
(d) "The Seven Phallic Poems."

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

4. In which poem does Rilke begin, "She who sleeps... To be so very awake, / near pure waking, that we into sleepers grow"?
(a) "Greek Love-Talk."
(b) "Music."
(c) "The Lovers."
(d) "Magic."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what fruit does Rilke write of in "The Poet Praises"?

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

3. In the Prologue, who does the commentator say is the other of the two greatest writers of the twentieth century?

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

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 233 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample