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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In what year did Rilke write the "Woman's Lament" poems?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1925.
2. In one untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties," the poet writes, "Give me, oh earth, pure _____ / clay for the jug of tears."
(a) Reserved.
(b) Resistent.
(c) Unmingling.
(d) Unmitigated.
3. The poem "Gong" makes use of what literary technique?
(a) Onomatapeia.
(b) Irony.
(c) Absurdism.
(d) Segmentation.
4. The first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?
(a) "Duino Elegies."
(b) "Poems to Orpheus."
(c) "Rites to Passage."
(d) "The Seven Phallic Poems."
5. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?
(a) To leave one's love.
(b) To stand alone.
(c) To love one another.
(d) To birth a child.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the title of the poem which begins, "Center, how you draw yourself out"?
2. What literary term applies to the following: "exhaust yourself like a spring"?
3. What did the commentator originally call the selections of Rilke's letters which he copied and gave out?
4. Rilke writes in "The Seven Phallic Poems," "We close ______ by means of our gazes."
5. The translator claims that the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" deserve to take their place alongside whose great love poems?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Rilke say regarding the young and marriage in his letters?
2. What does Rilke write of in his first poem of "Poems of Other Difficulties"?
3. What sexual elements are undertaken in The Seven Phallic Poems?
4. What references to Venus does Rilke make in the untitled poems of "Poems of Other Difficulties"?
5. What does the commentator say regarding the transition to the 1960s' promiscuity and what this transition lacked?
6. How does death intermingle with sex in The Seven Phallic Poems? How does childhood?
7. What are the subjects discussed in the "Woman's Lament" poems?
8. What influences does Mood speak of on Rilke's writing in his introduction to "Poems of Other Difficulties"?
9. Discuss the imagery and symbolism in the poems "From the Cycle: Nights" and "Force of Gravity."
10. In the untitled poems following "The Lovers," what imagery does the poet use?
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