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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 book of Simone de Beauvoir's does the commentator say led him to "militant feminism" in the Introduction to "Rilke's Letters on Love"?
(a) Letters to a Young Poet.
(b) The Second Sex.
(c) The Feminist Manifesto.
(d) The Woman's Life.

2. What is the only novel that Rilke wrote?
(a) The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
(b) Letters to a Young Poet.
(c) The Grapes of Wrath.
(d) Lessons of a Forgotten Soul.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one of the earliest figures of feminism who was friends with Rilke?

2. Rilke remarks in his letters that his sex is "not directed only toward posterity" but is is what?

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

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

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