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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. Where does "I am the Anxious One" end?
(a) City of Time.
(b) City of Weeps.
(c) City of Rain.
(d) City of Dreams.

2. What does the second stanza of "I am the Anxious One" focus on?
(a) Weather.
(b) Pain.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Relationship.

3. Which of the following is different between Book 1, Chapters 1 and 2?
(a) Tone.
(b) Quality.
(c) Literary techniques.
(d) Poem length.

4. Who might find the introduction before the poems most informative?
(a) Those who do not know about poem format.
(b) Those who do not agree with Rilke's opinions.
(c) Those who do not know about Bohemia or Rilke.
(d) Those who do not know about Germany's wars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What became of Bohemia?

2. What do the poems about animals serve to do most?

3. What does the panther serve to be a symbol of?

4. When was Book 1, Chapter 1 written?

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

(see the answer key)

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