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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. According to Rilke, there is "scarcely anything more difficult" than what?
(a) To birth a child.
(b) To stand alone.
(c) To love one another.
(d) To leave one's love.

2. What does Rilke accuse of vilifying sensuality and love?
(a) The government.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Womankind.
(d) Mankind.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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