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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 6, Uncollected Poems.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who annexed Rilke's part of Czech Bohemia with World War I?
(a) America.
(b) Austria.
(c) England.
(d) Russia.

2. Which of the following is a line from the poem "To Holderlin"?
(a) We are not permitted to be intimate.
(b) We must endure trial and tribulation.
(c) We are allowed to be together for but a minute
(d) We are not permitted to linger.

3. According to Rilke, what do poems written in one's youth lack?
(a) Vigor.
(b) Respect.
(c) Figurative language.
(d) Diction.

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

5. Which poem has the following line: "Then all at once the messenger is there"?
(a) "Alcestis."
(b) "Archaic Torso of Apollo."
(c) "Black Cat."
(d) "The Flamingos."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "To Holderlin," which of the following is referenced in the first stanza?

3. What is markedly distinct about "To Music"?

4. Which of the following poems has the theme of being held back?

5. Which poem has the following line: "You must change your life"?

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