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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems on Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the shortest of the love poems consists of the following two lines: "Also to affirm even ______ / like a thing."
(a) Lust.
(b) Woman.
(c) Rapture.
(d) Love.

2. What does Rilke accuse of vilifying sensuality and love?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Womankind.
(c) The government.
(d) Mankind.

3. What term describes the following example from "The Seven Phallic Poems"? "Daring landscape, such as an inner-seer/beholds in a crystal ball."
(a) Irony.
(b) Prose.
(c) Contrast.
(d) Simile.

4. What does the translator comment in the Prologue that his translations of Rilke are?
(a) Eloquent.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Exact.
(d) Inadequate.

5. In what year was Rilke born?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1875.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."

2. Who is one of the earliest figures of feminism who was friends with Rilke?

3. Rilke writes in his letters, "Why have they made our sex _______, instead of making it the place for the festival of our competency?"

4. Which poem begins, "See how in their veins all becomes spirit"?

5. Which poem begins with the line, "And the last perhaps will not return"?

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