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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. The commentator notes that all of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" were written when he was how old?
(a) His thirties and forties.
(b) His forties and fifties.
(c) His fifties.
(d) His twenties.

2. What does the translator comment in the Prologue that his translations of Rilke are?
(a) Exact.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Inadequate.
(d) Eloquent.

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"?
(a) Sculpting.
(b) Painting.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Letter-writing.

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

5. In the excerpt of Rilke's letter in the Introduction, what essay does he refer to reading?
(a) Homer's Odyssey.
(b) Plato's Symposium.
(c) Cicero's Symposium.
(d) Platos' Cave.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rilke writes in "The Seven Phallic Poems," "We close ______ by means of our gazes."

2. In what year did Rilke write the "Woman's Lament" poems?

3. Rilke writes in one letter, "At bottom ______ can help anyone else in life."

4. In which poem does Rilke begin, "She who sleeps... To be so very awake, / near pure waking, that we into sleepers grow"?

5. Over what does the poet write, "we will together contend" in "Greek Love-Talk"?

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