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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke : Chapter 2, New Poems.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main difference between the English and German poems?
(a) The translation uses weaker description.
(b) The German poems rhyme better than the translation.
(c) The translation has a different message.
(d) The German poems are completely different and impossible to translate to English.

2. What are the ancient women that Rilke describes called?
(a) Hetrio.
(b) Hermetia.
(c) Hermes.
(d) Heterae.

3. What is the title of Book 1, Chapter 1?
(a) "The Hours."
(b) "Anxious One."
(c) "The City of Time."
(d) "Time Square."

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

5. Which of the following people does Rilke paint a picture of through poetry?
(a) His country's leader.
(b) His mother.
(c) Himself.
(d) His favorite pet.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the poems published in Book 1, Chapter 2 ?

2. According to the poem about Lord in Book 1, Chapter 1, what can be found in all things in life?

3. What of the following are not themes in Rilke's poems in Book 1, Chapter 2?

4. What is the title of Book 1, Chapter 2?

5. How did the women described in Rilke's poem about the ancient women dress?

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