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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. Who answered questions on Apollo's behalf?
(a) Angels.
(b) Greek religious leaders.
(c) Oracles.
(d) Hermes.

2. In Greek mythology, what did the sun readily take on the guise of?
(a) Worshippers.
(b) Church.
(c) Wind.
(d) Living man.

3. In the poem about the abnormal women, which stanza is the longest?
(a) Second.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Third.
(d) First.

4. What follows from "I have my dead"?
(a) And I want to die.
(b) And I let them live.
(c) And I have let them go.
(d) And I keep them close.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "For the Sake of a Single Poem" about?

2. According to Rilke, what does Orpheus invigorate?

3. How long is Rilke's poem about the abnormal women?

4. In the poem where the narrator is lying in bed, which item describes the narrator's day?

5. How many elegies are contained in Chapter 7?

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