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Rainer Maria Rilke (poet)
Contributed by: Khatun
  • 1. When did Rainer Maria Rilke pass away?
A) 1960
B) 1945
C) 1900
D) 1926
  • 2. What is the name of Rilke's only novel?
A) The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
B) To the Lighthouse
C) In Search of Lost Time
D) 1984
  • 3. What language did Rilke primarily write in?
A) Spanish
B) German
C) English
D) Italian
  • 4. Who was Rilke's mentor and lover for a period of time?
A) George Orwell
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Emily Dickinson
D) Lou Andreas-Salomé
  • 5. What was Rilke's primary literary genre?
A) Poetry
B) Non-fiction
C) Fiction
D) Drama
  • 6. Rilke's final volume of poetry was published posthumously in 1927 with the title:
A) The Waste Land
B) Sonnets to Orpheus
C) The Iliad
D) Paradise Lost
  • 7. What is the pen name under which Rilke published his first book of poems at the age of 19?
A) David Maria Rilke
B) René Maria Rilke
C) Michael Maria Rilke
D) Lucas Maria Rilke
  • 8. Who was Rilke's father?
A) Alexander Rilke
B) Maximilian Rilke
C) Frederick Rilke
D) Josef Rilke
  • 9. What was the cause of Rilke's death?
A) Diabetes
B) Leukemia
C) Pneumonia
D) Heart attack
  • 10. Where is Rilke buried?
A) Vienna, Austria
B) Raron, Switzerland
C) Paris, France
D) Prague, Czech Republic
  • 11. What was the title of Rilke's most famous collection of poems?
A) Duino Elegies
B) The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke
C) Book of Hours
D) Sonnets to Orpheus
  • 12. Where was Rilke born?
A) Prague, Czech Republic
B) Paris, France
C) Vienna, Austria
D) Zurich, Switzerland
  • 13. Rilke spent time in which country seeking artistic inspiration?
A) Italy
B) Greece
C) Russia
D) Spain
  • 14. Rilke was deeply influenced by the teachings of which philosopher?
A) Immanuel Kant
B) Karl Marx
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Friedrich Nietzsche
  • 15. In which year did Rilke receive the prestigious patronage of the Princess Maria von Thurn und Taxis?
A) 1920
B) 1900
C) 1910
D) 1930
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