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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 first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?
(a) "The Seven Phallic Poems."
(b) "Rites to Passage."
(c) "Poems to Orpheus."
(d) "Duino Elegies."

2. In what amount of time did Rilke write over 1,600 lines of poetry plus a major essay during "the great giving"?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Six months.
(c) Three months.
(d) Six weeks.

3. What does Rilke comment in the excerpt from the Introduction that Eros "cannot be"?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Faithful.
(c) Ugly.
(d) Fair.

4. What is the title of the poem which begins, "Center, how you draw yourself out"?
(a) "From the Cycle: Nights."
(b) "Magic."
(c) "Music."
(d) "Force of Gravity."

5. What does the poet say in his untitled poem to do with that which, "offers itself to us with starlight"?
(a) Hide from it.
(b) Let it be free.
(c) Take it seriously.
(d) Cry with it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, with absinthe, "trickle through silent sieves of kisses of bitter essence"?

2. In one untitled love poem, Rilke writes, "Drinking would seem too much, too ____, to me"?

3. In "Gravity," Rilke writes, "Yet from the _____ falls, / as from a stored up cloud, / abundant rain of force."

4. In one of the untitled love poems, Rilke writes, "What fields are fragrant as your ______?"

5. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?

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