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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part IV of "The Seven Phallic Poems," the poet writes, "You don't know ______, with your diffidence."
(a) Towers.
(b) Sex.
(c) Love.
(d) Gods.

2. Who does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?
(a) Norman Mailer.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Fitzgerald.

3. In the Introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Mood writes that Rilke "began as a bit of a sticky late ______."
(a) Surrealist.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Absurdist.
(d) Dadaist.

4. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."
(a) Sex.
(b) Love.
(c) Nature.
(d) Children.

5. In the introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Love," the commentator states that Rilke's imagery is all what?
(a) Earthly.
(b) Unnatural.
(c) Heavenly.
(d) Surreal.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "From the Cycle: Nights," Rilke personifies "Night" as what?

2. What sculptor had an influence on Rilke's writing?

3. In what year did Rilke write the "Woman's Lament" poems?

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

5. Rilke's letters are examples of what?

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