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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?
(a) To stand alone.
(b) To love one another.
(c) To leave one's love.
(d) To birth a child.

2. In one untitled love poem, Rilke writes, "Drinking would seem too much, too ____, to me"?
(a) Loving.
(b) Lustful.
(c) Overwhelming.
(d) Plain.

3. The first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?
(a) "Rites to Passage."
(b) "The Seven Phallic Poems."
(c) "Duino Elegies."
(d) "Poems to Orpheus."

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

5. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."
(a) Kiss.
(b) Phalli.
(c) Woman.
(d) Silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?

2. Rilke's letters are examples of what?

3. One of the shortest of the love poems consists of the following two lines: "Also to affirm even ______ / like a thing."

4. In the second of "The Seven Phallic Poems," who does the poet claim is "drawing my seed up into an abrupt tree"?

5. In "The Seven Phallic Poems," who "grasps suddenly the bull bud of his vitality"?

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