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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the narrator willing to look in the face in "Requiem for a Friend"?
(a) A god.
(b) Gamblers.
(c) Vengeful friends.
(d) Death.

3. In the poem about the abnormal women, which stanza is the longest?
(a) Second.
(b) First.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Third.

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

5. What is the title of Book 1, Chapter 3?
(a) "Myth."
(b) "Good Poems II."
(c) "New Poems II."
(d) "Black Cat."

6. Who answered questions on Apollo's behalf?
(a) Angels.
(b) Oracles.
(c) Hermes.
(d) Greek religious leaders.

7. When the narrative character speaks to women in the streets, where do they speak from?
(a) Porches.
(b) Benches.
(c) Doorways.
(d) Windows.

8. What is "Requiem for a Friend" about?
(a) Fear when a baby is born.
(b) Fear after somebody has died.
(c) Failure to save somebody.
(d) Love for a best friend.

9. Which of the following would be an analogy used in Rilke's poetry for the way religion has changed?
(a) Changing one's appearance instead of accepting it.
(b) Owning animals instead of worshipping them.
(c) Laying out in the sun as opposed to worshipping it.
(d) Getting an education when simpler people are happier.

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

11. What does the panther serve to be a symbol of?
(a) Native Americans.
(b) The sun rising each morning.
(c) The German legal system.
(d) Natural power.

12. Which of the following best describes the rhyme scheme of the gazelle poem?
(a) The rhyme scheme was somewhat preserved in translation.
(b) The vocabulary is very tense, so the rhyme is overlooked.
(c) Rilke did not rhyme, but the translator did.
(d) Rilke did not intend to rhyme, but he did.

13. Which of the following is the name of one of Rilke's poems?
(a) "Apollo. Hermes. Eurydice."
(b) "Saint. Hermes. Alcestis."
(c) "Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes."
(d) "Orpheus. Alcestis. Apollo."

14. Which of the following is a theme in "I am the Anxious One"?
(a) Falling.
(b) Creating.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) Sleeping.

15. What friend is the one talked about in "Requiem for a Friend"?
(a) Paula.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) Marie.
(d) Gary.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the swan symbolize?

3. What does the author express in "Requiem for a Friend"?

4. Where was Rilke from?

5. What is a result of the discrepancy in translation in "I am the Anxious One"?

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