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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. Two-thirds of the poems in "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties" come from what year?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1924.

2. Mood notes in his introduction to Rilke's poetry that the poet was "in no way an _______, nor in his life."
(a) Amateur.
(b) Aesthete.
(c) Artist.
(d) Actor.

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

4. Who does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?
(a) Fitzgerald.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Norman Mailer.
(d) Hemingway.

5. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."
(a) Children.
(b) Sex.
(c) Love.
(d) Nature.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the poem, "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke writes, "Night. Oh you in depths ______."

3. When did Rilke undertake "the great giving"?

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

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 is Rilke's discussion regarding religion and the Christian church specifically in his letters?

2. Discuss the subjects and imagery of "The Poems Praise."

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

4. What sexual elements are undertaken in The Seven Phallic Poems?

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

6. What does Rilke say of questions and answers in his first essay?

7. In the untitled poems following "The Lovers," what imagery does the poet use?

8. What references to Venus does Rilke make in the untitled poems of "Poems of Other Difficulties"?

9. What does Rilke say regarding the institute of marriage and solitude?

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

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