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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. Which of the following is evident in Rilke's poems?
(a) Knowledge combined with contempt.
(b) Pure research.
(c) Faith combined with imagination.
(d) Imagination combined with knowledge.

2. Which word best describes Rilke in the second stanza of "I am the Anxious One'?
(a) A dreamer.
(b) A builder.
(c) A lover.
(d) A complainer.

3. What is the annexation of Bohemia compared to in the introduction?
(a) Hitler's reign.
(b) British rule of Ireland.
(c) The relationship between America and Canada.
(d) American rule of Native Americans.

4. What do the poems about animals serve to do most?
(a) Study the movements they make.
(b) Emphasize how captivity is bad for animals.
(c) Advertise for a zoo.
(d) Pay homage.

5. Where was Rilke from?
(a) Germany.
(b) Australia.
(c) Russia.
(d) Bohemia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following scenarios does Rilke use to describe pain?

2. What is the poem about faces called?

3. Which poem most portrays the power of classical theme in poetry?

4. What is the narrator willing to look in the face in "Requiem for a Friend"?

5. In "Requiem for a Friend," what moves the narrative character to travel?

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