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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the poems about animals serve to do most?
(a) Advertise for a zoo.
(b) Study the movements they make.
(c) Emphasize how captivity is bad for animals.
(d) Pay homage.

2. Which animal is described as being a restless captive?
(a) Gazelle.
(b) Swan.
(c) Pigeon.
(d) Panther.

3. Which animal is described as being able to escape a more powerful animal?
(a) Panther.
(b) Bird.
(c) Gazelle.
(d) Swan.

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

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

6. How does Rilke feel at the beginning of "I am the Anxious One"?
(a) Excited.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Anxious.

7. What is the annexation of Bohemia compared to in the introduction?
(a) The relationship between America and Canada.
(b) American rule of Native Americans.
(c) British rule of Ireland.
(d) Hitler's reign.

8. What did the women in Rilke's poem about ancient women overcome?
(a) Raising children.
(b) Restrictive roles.
(c) Pressures of education.
(d) Bad reputations.

9. When was Book 1, Chapter 1 written?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1905.

10. How old is Rilke's family member in the poem that describes them?
(a) Young adult.
(b) Child.
(c) Elderly
(d) Middle-aged adult.

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

12. What is the German 'Angstlicher' referring to?
(a) Somebody who is always anxious.
(b) Somebody who does not understand anxiety.
(c) City of Time.
(d) Somebody having a feeling in a way that is a noun.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following best describes the rhyme scheme of the gazelle poem?

4. How long is Rilke's poem about the abnormal women?

5. Which family member does Rilke dedicate a poem to?

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