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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. In what year was Rilke born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1800.

2. What does the translator comment in the Prologue that his translations of Rilke are?
(a) Inadequate.
(b) Exact.
(c) Eloquent.
(d) Beautiful.

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

4. In the excerpt of Rilke's letter in the Introduction, what essay does he refer to reading?
(a) Homer's Odyssey.
(b) Platos' Cave.
(c) Cicero's Symposium.
(d) Plato's Symposium.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The commentator regards that Rilke's "justly famed deep spirituality" is rooted essentially in what?

3. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?

4. Rilke's letters are examples of what?

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

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