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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. Rilke writes in one untitled poem, "Like the _____ of quickly grown-up girls / one braids differently."
(a) Lipstick.
(b) Pigtails.
(c) Ringlets.
(d) Hairpins.

2. In an untitled poem from "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes, "Great star of love's priestesses, which _____ kindles from its own right."
(a) Beauty.
(b) Misery.
(c) Heartbreak.
(d) Feeling.

3. The commentator concludes the introduction to Rilke's love poetry in saying, "Rilke's poetry is somewhat precious and even _______."
(a) Masculine.
(b) Ephemeral.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Effiminate.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke write that he holds to be "the highest task of a bond between two people"?

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

3. What did the commentator originally call the selections of Rilke's letters which he copied and gave out?

4. In the Introduction to "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Mood writes that Rilke "began as a bit of a sticky late ______."

5. Rilke is regarded in his letters and his writing to be distinctly ahead of his time in what respect?

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