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

2. In the introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Love," the commentator states that Rilke's imagery is all what?
(a) Surreal.
(b) Earthly.
(c) Unnatural.
(d) Heavenly.

3. Which poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties" speaks of a king?
(a) "Greek Love-Talk."
(b) "Mausoleum."
(c) "Gong."
(d) "Magic."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Writing of one of his principle motifs, the poet writes, "Transform stamen on stamen, / fill your interior _____."

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

4. In what year was Rilke born?

5. In "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes in one poem from 1924, "We are not to know why / this and that _____ us."

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