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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke : Chapter 4, Requiem.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Book 1, Chapter 2?
(a) "New Poems."
(b) "Ancient Women."
(c) "These Animals."
(d) "Old Poems."

2. What do the poems about animals serve to do most?
(a) Advertise for a zoo.
(b) Study the movements they make.
(c) Emphasize how captivity is bad for animals.
(d) Pay homage.

3. What is the annexation of Bohemia compared to in the introduction?
(a) American rule of Native Americans.
(b) The relationship between America and Canada.
(c) British rule of Ireland.
(d) Hitler's reign.

4. What is the name of the poem about Lord in Book 1, Chapter 1?
(a) "I long for the Lord's ability to stay in my life."
(b) "I yearn for desire in each acquaintance."
(c) "I find peace in the world, high and low."
(d) "I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all."

5. Which of the following is the first poem in Book 1, Chapter 4?
(a) "Traveling in a Dream."
(b) "Requiem for a Friend."
(c) "Poem for Marie."
(d) "Discourse of Fruit."

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following poems has the theme of being held back?

2. In the poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo," the poet is most similar to __________.

3. Which of the following is evident in Rilke's poems?

4. What is the narrator willing to look in the face in "Requiem for a Friend"?

5. Which poem has the following line: "Then all at once the messenger is there"?

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