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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke : Chapter 8, Sonnets to Orpheus.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the author of Greek tragedies?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Alcestis.
(c) Oedipus Rex.
(d) Sophocles.

2. How long is Rilke's poem about the abnormal women?
(a) More than one chapter.
(b) More than 40 lines.
(c) Several pages.
(d) Less than 20 lines.

3. In the first elegy, what happens to the images as the poem continues?
(a) They become more reluctant to reveal information to the reader.
(b) They become more confusing and deluded.
(c) They grow more spacious and remain descriptive.
(d) They become less descriptive.

4. Who was the Greek mistress of the elegiac verse form?
(a) Legise.
(b) Elega.
(c) Elegais.
(d) Elegis.

5. Which of the following is a theme in "I am the Anxious One"?
(a) Dreaming.
(b) Falling.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Creating.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the second stanza of the first elegy in Book 1, Chapter 7, "A ____ rolled toward you."

2. In one paragraph in the poem about faces, what has a woman fallen into?

3. In "Requiem for a Friend," which of the following is left unclear?

4. What does the author express in "Requiem for a Friend"?

5. What friend is the one talked about in "Requiem for a Friend"?

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