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. What term describes the following example from "The Seven Phallic Poems"? "Daring landscape, such as an inner-seer/beholds in a crystal ball."
(a) Simile.
(b) Contrast.
(c) Prose.
(d) Irony.

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

3. In the Introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Mood writes that Rilke "began as a bit of a sticky late ______."
(a) Romantic.
(b) Surrealist.
(c) Dadaist.
(d) Absurdist.

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

5. Rilke writes in one letter, "At bottom ______ can help anyone else in life."
(a) Everyone.
(b) No one.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. The commentator concludes the introduction to Rilke's love poetry in saying, "Rilke's poetry is somewhat precious and even _______."

2. Which poem begins, "See how in their veins all becomes spirit"?

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. In introducing Rilke's love poetry, the commentator notes that the poet's sexual and sensual undertones are mostly overlooked because of the striking impact of what?

5. Who does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 245 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample