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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The commentator remarks in the Introduction, "It should be emphasized that Rilke's language is thoroughly _______."
(a) Narrow.
(b) Sensual.
(c) Explicit.
(d) Dramatic.

2. What does Rilke write is a simplification of one's way of life?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Love.
(d) Sex.

3. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?
(a) Ending.
(b) Trying.
(c) Failing.
(d) Beginning.

4. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."
(a) Sex.
(b) Nature.
(c) Love.
(d) Children.

5. What does Rilke write in his first letter, imploring the reader to try to love?
(a) The truth.
(b) The questions themselves.
(c) Dignity.
(d) The answers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke write that he holds to be "the highest task of a bond between two people"?

2. In the Prologue, who does the commentator say is the other of the two greatest writers of the twentieth century?

3. 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"?

4. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?

5. In what year was Rilke born?

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