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

2. "Woman's Lament II" ends with the line, "and the ________ is not in vain."
(a) Nightingale.
(b) Butterfly.
(c) Sparrow.
(d) Ballerina.

3. In what poem does Rilke write "Life and death: they are one, at core intertwined"?
(a) "The Poems Praise."
(b) "Woman's Lament II."
(c) "The Poet Praises."
(d) "The Poet Speaks of Praising."

4. In "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes in one poem from 1924, "We are not to know why / this and that _____ us."
(a) Strengthens.
(b) Weakens.
(c) Empowers.
(d) Masters.

5. What, with absinthe, "trickle through silent sieves of kisses of bitter essence"?
(a) Wormwood.
(b) Fairies.
(c) Lust.
(d) Arsenic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In introducing Rilke's love poetry, the commentator notes that the poet's sexual and sensual undertones are mostly overlooked because of the striking impact of what?

2. The poem "Gong" makes use of what literary technique?

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

4. What is the name of the artists' colony in Russian where Rilke was further influenced in his writing?

5. Rilke writes in one untitled poem, "Like the _____ of quickly grown-up girls / one braids differently."

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