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

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

3. Rilke is regarded in his letters and his writing to be distinctly ahead of his time in what respect?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Religion.
(c) Politics.
(d) Writing.

4. Rilke's letters are examples of what?
(a) Prose.
(b) Irony.
(c) Verse.
(d) Verisimilitude.

5. Rilke writes in his letters, "Why have they made our sex _______, instead of making it the place for the festival of our competency?"
(a) Carefree.
(b) Homeless.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Loving.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rilke suggest that the young are apt to do in love?

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

3. What does Rilke accuse of vilifying sensuality and love?

4. Rilke writes in his letters on love, "Once we were ______ in every part, now we are that in one part only."

5. Rilke writes of love that "So whoever loves must try to act as if he had a _________."

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