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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. What is the title of the poem which begins, "From indescribable transformation flash / such creations--: Feel! and trust!"?
(a) "Music."
(b) "Gong."
(c) "Greek Love-Talk."
(d) "Magic."

2. What literary term applies to the following: "exhaust yourself like a spring"?
(a) Simile.
(b) Irony.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Metaphor.

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

4. In the seventh of "The Seven Phallic Poems," what does the poet write that his "semen climbs gladly like"?
(a) A tower.
(b) A god.
(c) A tree.
(d) A child.

5. Which poem begins with the line, "And the last perhaps will not return"?
(a) "The Lovers."
(b) "Greek Love-Talk."
(c) "Woman's Lament I."
(d) "Woman's Lament II."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what amount of time did Rilke write over 1,600 lines of poetry plus a major essay during "the great giving"?

3. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."

4. What does Rilke write in Part V of "The Seven Phallic Poems" has "weakened you and me"?

5. What does the commentator say was Rilke's mode of exploration during "the long periods between his well-known great creative bursts of energy"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rilke write of using the metaphor of water, song, and play in his untitled poems?

2. In the untitled poems of "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties," how does Rilke write of the gods?

3. How does Mood describe Rilke's masculinity and femininity in his poetry? What does he say of Rilke's own life in this regard?

4. What does the commentator say regarding the transition to the 1960s' promiscuity and what this transition lacked?

5. Discuss the imagery and symbolism in the poems "From the Cycle: Nights" and "Force of Gravity."

6. Discuss the subjects of "Greek Love Talk" and "The Lovers." What imagery is used?

7. What does Rilke write of in his first poem of "Poems of Other Difficulties"?

8. How does death intermingle with sex in The Seven Phallic Poems? How does childhood?

9. What is the poet writing about in "The Poet Praises"?

10. In the fourth and fifth of The Seven Phallic Poems, what imagery does the poet use for climax?

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