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

2. What follows from "I have my dead"?
(a) And I want to die.
(b) And I have let them go.
(c) And I let them live.
(d) And I keep them close.

3. What is sonnet II-4 about?
(a) Music.
(b) Education.
(c) Function of the mind.
(d) Imagination.

4. Whom does the poet ask, "Tell me, must I travel?"
(a) A god.
(b) A lover.
(c) A dead friend.
(d) A parent.

5. According to Rilke, Orpheus continues to live on in ___________.
(a) Food.
(b) Music.
(c) Paintings.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the longest poem in Book 1, Chapter 5?

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

3. Which of the following is contained in the appendix of Book 1, Chapter 7?

4. What is the new element introduced in "Requiem for a Friend"?

5. Which of the following feelings is not experienced by the poet in the first elegy of Book 1, Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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