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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When were the poems published in Book 1, Chapter 2 ?
(a) 1900, 1901.
(b) 1905, 1906.
(c) 1907, 1908.
(d) 1910, 1911.
2. What is Apollo the god of in Greek mythology?
(a) Medicine, anger, winter.
(b) Reading, writing, arithmetic.
(c) Education, summer, and trees.
(d) Sun, healing, and music.
3. Which animal's motions are most notable through Rilke's poems?
(a) Swan.
(b) Pigeon.
(c) Gazelle.
(d) Panther.
4. Which word best describes Rilke in the second stanza of "I am the Anxious One'?
(a) A dreamer.
(b) A complainer.
(c) A lover.
(d) A builder.
5. Which of the following best describes the rhyme scheme of the gazelle poem?
(a) The vocabulary is very tense, so the rhyme is overlooked.
(b) Rilke did not rhyme, but the translator did.
(c) Rilke did not intend to rhyme, but he did.
(d) The rhyme scheme was somewhat preserved in translation.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does the narrator admire the dead person in "Requiem for a Friend"?
2. What line follows from "And so you died, as women used to die"?
3. Who might find the introduction before the poems most informative?
4. According to the poem about Lord in Book 1, Chapter 1, what can be found in all things in life?
5. What is the title of Book 1, Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the panther portrayed in the poem in which it is the subject?
2. How does the author show genuine emotion in poetry, especially in Book 1, Chapter 5?
3. What is the message found in "I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all"?
4. How does the tone change in "I am the Anxious One"?
5. How does the author change from the first stanza to the second in "I am the Anxious One"?
6. Why is it significant for Rilke to write about the sun in "Archaic Torso of Apollo"?
7. What is the significance of the name Creon as it is used in "Alcestis"?
8. What is the significance of the title "Requiem for a Friend"?
9. Why is the first line in the poem about Alcestis significant?
10. What is the classical theme that Rilke presents in both "Alcestis" and "Archaic Torso of Apollo"?
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