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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. Of what fruit does Rilke write of in "The Poet Praises"?
(a) Grapefruit.
(b) Strawberry.
(c) Banana.
(d) Orange.

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

3. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?
(a) Austrian.
(b) German.
(c) French.
(d) Bohemian.

4. Rilke writes of love that "So whoever loves must try to act as if he had a _________."
(a) Priceless possession.
(b) Holy thing.
(c) Fragile jewel.
(d) Great work.

5. In the second of "The Seven Phallic Poems," who does the poet claim is "drawing my seed up into an abrupt tree"?
(a) A maiden.
(b) Love.
(c) Summer.
(d) A garden.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In which poem does Rilke begin, "She who sleeps... To be so very awake, / near pure waking, that we into sleepers grow"?

3. In "The Poet Praises," Rilke writes, "Maidens, you warm ones, maidens, you mute and dumb, / dance the taste of the experienced _____!"

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

5. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?

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