View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue and Letters on Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rilke comment in the excerpt from the Introduction that Eros "cannot be"?
(a) Ugly.
(b) Faithful.
(c) Joyful.
(d) Fair.

2. What did the commentator originally call the selections of Rilke's letters which he copied and gave out?
(a) "Letters of Love."
(b) "Rilke on Love."
(c) "The Love Letters."
(d) "Notes on Love."

3. What does Rilke suggest that the young are apt to do in love?
(a) Marry for money.
(b) Stand solitary.
(c) Give oneself away.
(d) Not listen to each other.

4. In the Prologue, who does the commentator say is the other of the two greatest writers of the twentieth century?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

5. Who is one of the earliest figures of feminism who was friends with Rilke?
(a) Ellen Page.
(b) Victoria Ellison.
(c) Ellen Kay.
(d) Sarah Albright.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book of Simone de Beauvoir's does the commentator say led him to "militant feminism" in the Introduction to "Rilke's Letters on Love"?

2. Who does the commentator compare Rilke's relationship toward sex to in the Introduction?

3. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?

4. What does Rilke write is a simplification of one's way of life?

5. Rilke writes in his letters, "Why have they made our sex _______, instead of making it the place for the festival of our competency?"

(see the answer key)

This section contains 251 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample