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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 4, Requiem.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Apollo the god of in Greek mythology?
(a) Medicine, anger, winter.
(b) Education, summer, and trees.
(c) Reading, writing, arithmetic.
(d) Sun, healing, and music.

2. Which of the following do not describe a poem in Rilke's book?
(a) Time of day.
(b) A panther in a cage.
(c) A clown in the park trying to make a living.
(d) Rilke's father before Rilke was born.

3. Which of the following describes the ancient women?
(a) Dancers.
(b) Pro-feminist.
(c) Feminine.
(d) Uneducated.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Rilke's family member in the poem that describes them?

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

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

4. Where does "I am the Anxious One" end?

5. In the poem "I am the Anxious One," which stanza is the longest?

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