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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. From what language has the author translated the poems and prose excerpts of "Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties"?
(a) German.
(b) Austrian.
(c) Bohemian.
(d) French.

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

3. Rilke remarks in his letters that his sex is "not directed only toward posterity" but is is what?
(a) "The joy of my life."
(b) "The solution of days."
(c) "The answer within the wind."
(d) "The secret of my own life."

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

5. Who does Rilke say is incapable of such loving as he calls for?
(a) Women.
(b) Young people.
(c) Virgins.
(d) Religious people.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?

2. The commentator remarks in the Introduction, "It should be emphasized that Rilke's language is thoroughly _______."

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

4. What does Rilke write in his first letter, imploring the reader to try to love?

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

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